<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >pg_opfamily</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 9.0.15 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="System Catalogs" HREF="catalogs.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="pg_operator" HREF="catalog-pg-operator.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="pg_pltemplate" HREF="catalog-pg-pltemplate.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2014-01-24T13:16:52"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" >PostgreSQL 9.0.15 Documentation</A ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="pg_operator" HREF="catalog-pg-operator.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="catalogs.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 45. System Catalogs</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="pg_pltemplate" HREF="catalog-pg-pltemplate.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="CATALOG-PG-OPFAMILY" >45.30. <TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_opfamily</TT ></A ></H1 ><P > The catalog <TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_opfamily</TT > defines operator families. Each operator family is a collection of operators and associated support routines that implement the semantics specified for a particular index access method. Furthermore, the operators in a family are all <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"compatible"</SPAN >, in a way that is specified by the access method. The operator family concept allows cross-data-type operators to be used with indexes and to be reasoned about using knowledge of access method semantics. </P ><P > Operator families are described at length in <A HREF="xindex.html" >Section 35.14</A >. </P ><DIV CLASS="TABLE" ><A NAME="AEN81019" ></A ><P ><B >Table 45-30. <TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_opfamily</TT > Columns</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><COL><COL><COL><COL><THEAD ><TR ><TH >Name</TH ><TH >Type</TH ><TH >References</TH ><TH >Description</TH ></TR ></THEAD ><TBODY ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >opfmethod</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >oid</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" ><A HREF="catalog-pg-am.html" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_am</TT ></A >.oid</TT ></TD ><TD >Index access method operator family is for</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >opfname</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >name</TT ></TD ><TD > </TD ><TD >Name of this operator family</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >opfnamespace</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >oid</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" ><A HREF="catalog-pg-namespace.html" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_namespace</TT ></A >.oid</TT ></TD ><TD >Namespace of this operator family</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TT CLASS="STRUCTFIELD" >opfowner</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="TYPE" >oid</TT ></TD ><TD ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" ><A HREF="catalog-pg-authid.html" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_authid</TT ></A >.oid</TT ></TD ><TD >Owner of the operator family</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ></DIV ><P > The majority of the information defining an operator family is not in its <TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_opfamily</TT > row, but in the associated rows in <A HREF="catalog-pg-amop.html" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_amop</TT ></A >, <A HREF="catalog-pg-amproc.html" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_amproc</TT ></A >, and <A HREF="catalog-pg-opclass.html" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_opclass</TT ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="catalog-pg-operator.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="catalog-pg-pltemplate.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_operator</TT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="catalogs.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><TT CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >pg_pltemplate</TT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >