Re: Latin vs non-Latin words in text search parsing

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Latin vs non-Latin words in text search parsing
Date: 2007-10-23 15:31:29
Message-ID: 20071023153129.GF18013@alvh.no-ip.org
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
> > I wrote:
> >> Maybe "aword", "word", and "numword"?
> >
> > Does the lack of response mean people are satisfied with that?
>
> Sorry, I had a couple responses partially written but never finished.
>
> If we were doing it from scratch I would suggest using longer names. At the
> least I would still suggest using "ascii" or "asciiword" instead of "aword".

+1 for asciiword; "aword" sounds too much like "a word" which is not the
meaning I think we're trying to convey. It is a bit longer, but there
are longer names already so I don't think it's a problem. (It's not
like it's something anyone needs to type often).

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