Re: unaccent contrib

Before 9.x, how do unaccent full text searches ?
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2011/9/21 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>

> Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com> writes:
> > On 21-09-2011 13:28, Daniel Vázquez wrote:
> >> "unaccent" is compatible with postgresql 8.4 (but not is in their
> contrib
> >> version distribution)
>
> > No, it is not. AFAICS it is necessary to add some backend code that is
> not in 8.4.
>
> [ pokes at it ] Yeah, you are right. The version of unaccent that is
> in our source tree is a filtering dictionary, and therefore cannot
> possibly work with backends older than 9.0 (when the filtering
> dictionary feature was added).
>
> So I'm wondering where the OP read that it was compatible with 8.4.
> Our own documentation about it certainly does not say that. It's
> possible that Oleg and Teodor had some prototype version, different
> from what got committed to our tree, that would work in 8.4.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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