On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 10:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > Although I'm happy to see tsearch finally hit the big time, I'm a bit
> > disappointed to see so many new datatype-specific SQL commands created.
>
> Per subsequent discussion we are down to just one new set of commands,
> CREATE/ALTER/DROP TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION, so it's not as big a
> footprint as it was to start with.
Thats a lot better, thanks. I'm sure that will work better in PgAdmin
and many other places too.
> I have been thinking that it would be smart to try to use the generic
> "definition list" syntax, like CREATE OPERATOR and CREATE AGGREGATE.
> But the motivation for that is just to avoid defining more keywords
> (which has an overall impact on parser size and performance). It's
> not really going to do anything for us in terms of having an
> implementation that can be shared with anything else.
It's OK; ALTER RFID TAG NOMENCLATURE has a nice ring to it. :-)
-- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com