Re: default_text_search_config and expression indexes

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >> Removing the default configuration setting altogether removes the 2nd
> >> problem, but that's not good from a usability point of view. And it
> >> doesn't solve the general issue, you can still do things like:
> >> SELECT * FROM foo WHERE to_tsvector('confA', textcol) @@
> >> to_tsquery('confB', 'query');
> >
> > True, but in that case you are specifically naming different
> > configurations, so it is hopefully obvious you have a mismatch.
>
> There's many more subtle ways to do that. For example, filling a
> tsvector column using a DEFAULT clause. But then you sometimes fill it
> in the application instead, with a different configuration. Or if one of
> the function calls is buried in another user defined function.
>
> I don't think explicitly naming the configuration gives enough protection.

Oh, wow, OK, well in that case the text search API isn't ready and we
will have to hold this for 8.4.

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