Re: default_text_search_config and expression indexes

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Pavel Stehule wrote:

> 2007/7/27, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>:
>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> 1) Document the problem and do nothing else.
>>>> 2) Make default_text_search_config a postgresql.conf-only
>>>> setting, thereby making it impossible to change by non-super
>>>> users, or make it a super-user-only setting.
>>>> 3) Remove default_text_search_config and require the
>>>> configuration to be specified in each function call.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> 2+.
>>
>>
>> One of the most important purpose of integrating tsearch2 was to
>> facilitate full-text search for people in hosting environment. Usually,
>> they have no superuser rights. I'm asking don't forget about them !
>>
>> There is no problem with current behaviour once user understand what he do.
>>
>>
>
> I am not sure if postgresql is well for multilangual hosting
> environment. There is problem with locales. Without COLLATE support
> postgresql can't be used in similar environment. :(

configuration has NOTHING with language ! This is a most frequent myth about
configuration. It's just the way we chose for default_text_search_config to
use language part of locale at initdb time.
text search configuration is just a bind between parser to use for
breaking document by lexems and mapping between lexeme type and dictionaries.

>
> nice a day
> Pavel Stehule
>

Regards,
Oleg
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