Re: tsearch in core patch, for inclusion

Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>
> >> FYI, I added this to the patches queue because I think we decided
> >> full-text indexing should be in the core. If I am wrong, please let me
> >> know.
> >
> > One of the objections I remember to this particular implementation was
> > that configuration should be done using functions rather than new syntax
> > in gram.y. This seems a good idea because it avoids bloating the
> > grammar, while still allowing dependency tracking, pg_dump support,
> > syscache support etc.
>
> It's not so big addition to the gram.y, see a list of commands
> http://mira.sai.msu.su/~megera/pgsql/ftsdoc/sql-commands.html.
> SQL commands make FTS syntax clear and follow tradition to manage
> system objects. From the user's side, I'd be very unhappy to configure
> FTS, which can be very complex, using functions. All we want is to
> provide users clear syntax.

I looked at the diff file and the major change in gram.y is the creation
of a new object type FULLTEXT, so you can CREATE, ALTER and DROP
FULLTEXT.

I don't know fulltext administration well enough, so if Oleg says a
function API would be too complex, I am OK with his new parser syntax.

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