Re: FTS parser - missing UUID token type

=?UTF-8?Q?Przemys=c5=82aw_Sztoch?= <przemyslaw(at)sztoch(dot)pl> writes:
> I miss UUID, which indexes very strangely, is more and more popular and
> people want to search for it.

Really? UUIDs in running text seem like an extremely uncommon
use-case to me. URLs in running text are common nowadays, which is
why the text search parser has special code for that, but UUIDs?

Adding such a thing isn't cost-free either. Aside from the
probably-substantial development effort, we know from experience
with the URL support that it sometimes misfires and identifies
something as a URL or URL fragment when it really isn't one.
That leads to poorer indexing of the affected text. It seems
likely that adding a UUID token type would be a net negative
for most people, since they'd be subject to that hazard even if
their text contains no true UUIDs.

It's a shame that the text search parser isn't more extensible.
If it were you could imagine having such a feature while making
it optional. I'm not volunteering to fix that though :-(

regards, tom lane