Re: [PATCHES] Include Lists for Text Search

Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru> writes:
>> Hmm, I can see how some middleware would help with folding or not
>> folding the input token, but what about the words coming from the
>> dictionary file (particularly the *output* lexeme)? It's not apparent
>> to me that it's sensible to try to control that from outside the
>> dictionary.

> Right now I see an significant advantage of such layer: two possible extension
> of dictionary (filtering and storing original form) are independent from nature
> of dictionary. So, instead of modifying of every dictionary we can add some
> layer, common for all dictionary. With syntax like:

> CREATE/ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY foo (...) WITH ( filtering=on|off,
> store_original=on|off );

> Or per token's type/dictionary pair.

Well, if you think this can/should be done somewhere outside the
dictionary, should I revert the applied patch?

regards, tom lane