Re: tsearch2 in PostgreSQL 8.3?

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: tsearch2 in PostgreSQL 8.3?
Date: 2007-08-15 03:38:28
Message-ID: 46C27534.8080708@dunslane.net
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>> The people who actually use tsearch2 seem to all have the same opinion ...
>> so I think we can't go too far in the bullet-proofing direction.
>>

Yeah.
>> But I would like a design that is bulletproof in dump/reload scenarios,
>> and I think it's fair to question that aspect of the tsearch2 design
>> because we've seen many reports of people having trouble updating
>> databases that use tsearch2.
>>
>
> Yea, look at the trouble we are having trying to underestand it all.

True. But I wasn't too concerned about the forecast difficulties with
data only dumps. Those fail in plenty of circumstances. It is important
that there is *some* reliable dump/restore/upgrade path, though.

cheers

andrew

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