Re: hunspell and tsearch2 ?

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Dirk Lutzebäck
<dirk(dot)lutzebaeck(at)thinkproject(dot)com> wrote:
> we have issues with compound words in tsearch2 using the german (ispell)
> dictionary. This has been discussed before but there is no real solution
> using the recommended german dictionary at
> http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2 (convert old
> openoffice dict file to ispell suitable for tsearch):
>
> # select ts_lexize('german_ispell', 'vollklimatisiert');
> ts_lexize
> --------------------
> {vollklimatisiert}
> (1 row)
>
> This should return atleast
>
> {vollklimatisiert, voll, klimatisiert}
>
>
> The issue with compound words in ispell has been addressed in hunspell. But
> this has not been integrated fully to tsearch2 (according to the
> documentation).

Just out of curiosity, which part of the documentation are you looking
at? The only mention of hunspell I see in the documentation is a
mention that we apparently support their dictionary-file format.

> Are there any plans to fully integrate hunspell into tsearch2? What is
> needed to do this? What is the functional delta which is missing? Maybe we
> can help...

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