Tom Lane wrote:
> Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> writes:
>> I don't understand why this ALTER variation is so different from existing=20
>> ones, but maybe the following syntax can't work:
>> ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY swedish ALTER STOPWORDS SET swedish;
>
> You'd have to repeat the whole command for each option to be changed,
> which given the amount of typing involved seems a bit unpleasant.
>
> There are also historical differences between what is allowed by
> the SET var = value syntax and what is allowed in the
> parenthesized-option-list syntax. Introducing an inconsistency between
> ALTER and CREATE doesn't seem appetizing.
>
> (BTW, does anyone want to teach psql's tab-completion about the new
> text search statements?)
I will take a stab at doing that ...
Stefan