Tom Lane wrote: > This patch: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-11/msg00137.php > seems simple and useful enough that I think we ought to slip it into > 8.3, even though we are far past feature freeze. > > As the "simple" dictionary type stands in CVS HEAD, it is only useful as > the last dictionary in a stack, since it never passes anything on as > unrecognized. With the proposed AcceptAll = false option, it could be > used to filter out some stopwords before feeding tokens to another > dictionary. While most dictionary types have their own stopword support, > some of them match stopwords after their own normalization processing, > and so there's no way to filter on pre-normalized words. That seems > like a good improvement, even without the specific need-example that > Jan provided at the start of the thread. > > Normally we'd never consider adding a new feature so late in the > development cycle, but this seems small enough and useful enough > to make an exception. Comments?
Agreed. The logic is that textsearch is getting a major overhaul in 8.3 and it is reasonable to keep adjusting things during beta. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
