Re: Need full search text on a shared hosting web site using 8.1.x

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Raymond Rodgers <sinful622(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I just signed up for web hosting with HostNine which offers PostgreSQL
> > 8.1.x, which doesn't have the full text search support in the default
> > installl. I requested that they run the tsearch2.sql from the contributed
> > files on the server to provide me with those capabilities since I don't
> have
> > super user access to the database server, but they just denied my
> request.
>
> If they don't sell what you want to buy (ie, access to a reasonably
> modern version of Postgres), go where they do sell it.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
Aside from this issue, they're the best I've found for the least amount of
money in terms of bandwidth, disk space, and PostgreSQL support. I'd happily
continue to use my current, more expensive, hosting provider if they weren't
phasing out support for compiling your own applications with their system,
which means that I'll be losing PostgreSQL support because they only support
MySQL officially.

I went through the list of the hosting providers on the PostgreSQL site, and
while the old adage "you get what you pay for" might be applicable in this
instance, they were the only one that I could really afford at this point in
time.

Raymond