Re: default_text_search_config and expression indexes

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Cc: tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: default_text_search_config and expression indexes
Date: 2007-08-14 21:15:28
Message-ID: 20070814211528.GV9206@alvh.no-ip.org
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Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, tomas(at)tuxteam(dot)de wrote:
>>>
>>>> Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that the configuration
>>>> is more attached to a column/index thatn to the whole database. If
>>>> there's a default in an expression, I'd rather expect this default to be
>>>> drawn from the index involved than from a global value (like a
>>>> functional
>>>> index does now).
>>>
>>> I'm tired to repeat - index itself doesn't know about configuration !
>>
>> Is there a way to change that? For example store the configuration in a
>> metapage or something?
>
> it's useless, in general, since you could use different configuration to
> build tsvector.

Hmm, sorry, I think I just understood what this was about: so you mean
that the configuration is really *per row* and not per index? So I can
store rows into an index using more than one configuration, and it will
work?

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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