I'm currently dealing with a large PostgreSQL table containing approximately 350 million rows. For performance optimization, I'm trying to create Bloom indexes on some bigint columns in my table.

Since PostgreSQL doesn't natively support Bloom indexes for bigint, I've created a custom operator class using the following SQL:

CREATE OPERATOR CLASS bigint_ops DEFAULT FOR TYPE bigint USING bloom AS OPERATOR 1 =(bigint, bigint), FUNCTION 1 hashint8(bigint);

Despite this, when I create Bloom indexes on bigint columns, it seems that PostgreSQL is not using these indexes. Conversely, when I create Bloom indexes on int columns, which PostgreSQL supports by default, the system successfully uses the created indexes.

I'm not sure why my custom operator class isn't being used for bigint columns. I've been trying to figure out what might be the issue, but so far I've come up short.

Could anyone provide some insight as to why this might be happening? Is there a special step to make PostgreSQL use my custom operator class for bigint?

Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated.

I'm currently dealing with a large PostgreSQL table containing approximately 350 million rows. For performance optimization, I'm trying to create Bloom indexes on some bigint columns in my table.

Since PostgreSQL doesn't natively support Bloom indexes for bigint, I've created a custom operator class using the following SQL:

CREATE OPERATOR CLASS bigint_ops
DEFAULT FOR TYPE bigint USING bloom AS
    OPERATOR    1   =(bigint, bigint),
    FUNCTION    1   hashint8(bigint);

Despite this, when I create Bloom indexes on bigint columns, it seems that PostgreSQL is not using these indexes. Conversely, when I create Bloom indexes on int columns, which PostgreSQL supports by default, the system successfully uses the created indexes.

I'm not sure why my custom operator class isn't being used for bigint columns. I've been trying to figure out what might be the issue, but so far I've come up short.

Could anyone provide some insight as to why this might be happening? Is there a special step to make PostgreSQL use my custom operator class for bigint?

Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated.