Re: Rethinking opclass member checks and dependency strength

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> But none of our contrib modules do it like that, and I'd lay long odds
> against any third party code doing it either.


Thoughts?
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PostGIS has some rarely used box operations as part of GiST opclass, like
"overabove".

These are source of misunderstanding, as it hinges on the fact that
non-square geometry will be coerced into a box on a call, which is not
obvious when you call it on something like diagonal linestrings.
It may happen that we will decide to remove them. On such circumstances, I
expect that ALTER OPERATOR CLASS DROP OPERATOR will work.

Other thing that I would expect is that DROP FUNCTION ... CASCADE will
remove the operator and unregister the operator from operator class without
dropping operator class itself.