Re: Not ready for 8.3

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> 
>>> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Tsearch2 in core. I know that Tom has some reservations, he I and Treat 
>>>>> all commented on how it was done and to my knowledge those reservations 
>>>>> have not been resolved.
>>>> 
>>>> We'd like to know about these reservations. If I understand you mean 
>>>> there are issues with the patch ? Our patch is several months old. We 
>>>> permanently
>>>> keep it in sync with CVS HEAD, latest version is 0.47.
>>> 
>>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg01172.php
>> 
>> there are several others threads.
>> 
>> well, we did answer all raised questions and I don't want to begin
>> another wave.
>
> Did you address them? For example:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00914.php

we added support of gin index for text data type, so one could just
    create index fts_idx on TABLE using gin(body);

and should be able to do full-text search. Of course, ranking is not
available, since index doesn't store positional information.

 About this syntax see
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00936.php

>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua d. drake
>
>
> The only problem I see is that some people doesn't like
>> introducing SQL syntax, they claim functions would be enough. SQL is a
>> nice language to manipulate db objects, finally. Also, select to 
>> fts_create_dictionary(bla-bla....) looks pretty ugly,
>> pretty artificial.
>> 
>> CREATE FULLTEXT DICTIONARY dictname [    {   INIT  init_function
>>         | LEXIZE  lexize_function
>>         | OPTION opt_text } [ ... ]] LIKE template_dictname;
>> 
>> select
>> 
>>> 
>>> Sincerely,
>>> 
>>> Joshua D. Drake
>>> 
>>
>>     Regards,
>>         Oleg
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    Regards,        Oleg
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Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru),
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
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