Re: tsearch Parser Hacking

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Tom Lane wrote:

> "David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
>> Is it possible to modify the default tsearch parser so that / doesn't get lexed as a "file" token?
>
> There is zero, none, nada, provision for modifying the behavior of the
> default parser, other than by changing its compiled-in state transition
> tables.
>
> It doesn't help any that said tables are baroquely designed and utterly
> undocumented.

what do you mean 'baroquely' ? Do you know 'gothic' design :?

>
> IMO, sooner or later we need to trash that code and replace it with
> something a bit more modification-friendly.

We thought about configurable parser, but AFAIR, we didn't get any support
for this at that time.

Regards,
Oleg
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