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    Provide hashing support for arrays. · 186cbbda
    Tom Lane 提交于
    The core of this patch is hash_array() and associated typcache
    infrastructure, which works just about exactly like the existing support
    for array comparison.
    
    In addition I did some work to ensure that the planner won't think that an
    array type is hashable unless its element type is hashable, and similarly
    for sorting.  This includes adding a datatype parameter to op_hashjoinable
    and op_mergejoinable, and adding an explicit "hashable" flag to
    SortGroupClause.  The lack of a cross-check on the element type was a
    pre-existing bug in mergejoin support --- but it didn't matter so much
    before, because if you couldn't sort the element type there wasn't any good
    alternative to failing anyhow.  Now that we have the alternative of hashing
    the array type, there are cases where we can avoid a failure by being picky
    at the planner stage, so it's time to be picky.
    
    The issue of exactly how to combine the per-element hash values to produce
    an array hash is still open for discussion, but the rest of this is pretty
    solid, so I'll commit it as-is.
    186cbbda
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