Re: Prefix support for synonym dictionary

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jeff Davis<pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> The patch looks good.
>
> Comments:
>
> 1. The docs should be clarified a little. For instance, it should have a
> link back to the definition of a prefix search (12.3.2). I included my
> doc suggestions as an attachment.
>
> 2. dsynonym_init() uses findwrd() in a slightly confusing (and perhaps
> fragile) way. After calling findwrd(), the "end" pointer is pointing at
> either the end of the string, or the *; depending on whether the string
> ends in * and whether flags is NULL. I only mention this because I had
> to take a more careful look to see what was happening. Perhaps add a
> comment to make it more clear?
>
> 3. The patch looks for the special byte '*'. I think that's fine,
> because we depend on the files being in UTF-8 encoding, where it's the
> same byte. However, I thought it was worth mentioning in case we want to
> support other encodings for text search files later.

Oleg,

Are you planning to update this patch this week? If not I will set it
to "Returned with Feedback".

Thanks,

...Robert