From: | Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru> |
Subject: | Re: Bunch of tsearch fixes and cleanup |
Date: | 2007-08-23 17:54:29 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.64.0708232152540.2727@sn.sai.msu.ru |
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> - readstopwords calls recode_and_lowerstr directly, instead of using the
>> "wordop" function pointer in StopList struct. All callers used
>> recode_and_lowerstr anyway, so this simplifies the code a little bit. Is
>> there any external dictionary implementations that would require
>> different behavior?
>
> I don't think eliminating wordop altogether is such a hot idea; some
> dictionary could possibly want to do different processing than that.
>
> Something that was annoying me yesterday was that it was not clear
> whether we had fixed every single place that uses a tsearch config file
> to assume that the file is in UTF8 and should be converted to database
> encoding. So I was thinking of hardwiring the "recode" part into
> readstopwords, and using wordop just for the "lowercase" part, which
> seemed to me like a saner division of labor. That is, UTF8 is a policy
> that we want to enforce globally, but lowercasing maybe not, and this
> still leaves the door open for more processing besides lowercasing.
>
> Oleg, Teodor, what do you think about this?
>
I agrre with utf-8 recoding and please, don't lowercase. Dictionaries
are very different.
> regards, tom lane
>
Regards,
Oleg
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