Re: tsearch_extras extension

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Tim Abbott <tabbott(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:

> Just following up here since I haven't gotten a reply -- I'd love to work
> with someone from the Postgres community on a plan to make the
> tsearch_extras functionality available as part of mainline postgres.
>
>
> -Tim Abbott
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:41 PM, Tim Abbott <tabbott(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a maintainer of the Zulip open source group chat application. Zulip
>> depends on a small (~200 lines) postgres extension called tsearch_extras (
>> https://github.com/zbenjamin/tsearch_extras) that returns the actual
>> (offset, length) pairs of all the matches for a postgres full text search
>> query. This extension allows Zulip to do its own highlighting of the full
>> text search matches, using a more complicated method than what Postgres
>> supports natively.
>>
>> I think tsearch_extras is probably of value to others using postgres
>> full-text search (and I'd certainly love to get out of the business of
>> maintaining an out-of-tree postgres extension), so I'm wondering if this
>> feature (or a variant of it) would be of interest to upstream?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Tim Abbott
>>
>> (See
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/52C7186D(dot)8010504(at)strangersgate(dot)com#52C7186D(dot)8010504@strangersgate.com
>> for the discussion on postgres mailing lists that caused us to write this
>> module in the first place.)
>>
>
Tim,

take a look on this patch (https://commitfest.postgresql.org/7/385/) and
contact author. It contains everything you need to your purposes.

btw, Stas, check on status "Returned with feedback" !

Regards,
Oleg