On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
> I notice that the existing tsearch documentation that we've imported
> fairly consistently refers to Snowball dictionaries with names like
> "en_stem", "ru_stem", etc. However, CVS HEAD is set up to create them
> with names "english", "russian", etc. As I've been absorbing more of
> the docs I'm starting to wonder whether this is a good idea. ISTM
> that these names encourage a novice to think that the one dictionary
> is all you could need for a given language; and there are enough
> examples of more-complex setups in the docs to make it clear that
> in fact Snowball is not the be-all and end-all of dictionaries.
>
> I'm thinking that going back to the old naming convention (or something
> like it --- maybe "english_stem", "russian_stem", etc) would be better.
> It'd help to give the right impression, namely that these dictionaries
> are a component of a solution but not necessarily all you need.
>
> Thoughts?
I agree with you, old naming was more informative.
>
> regards, tom lane
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