Re: Is ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION PARSER = new_parser really sane?

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Tom Lane wrote:

> After starting to document this stuff I'm wondering whether it really
> makes sense to change the parser associated with a tsearch
> configuration. The problem is that the new parser might have an
> unrelated set of token types, but we don't do anything about updating
> the configuration's mappings.

looks reasonable, we could always create new parser.

>
> Ensuring sane behavior here would take a whole lot of new code, and
> I'm not sure that I see a use-case that justifies it. So I'm tempted to
> take out that particular ALTER capability altogether. I note that the
> corresponding feature of changing a dictionary's template on-the-fly
> doesn't exist (though it'd actually be a lot easier to support).

yes, here we tried to be sane

>
> Comments?

Regards,
Oleg
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