Re: tsearch2 in PostgreSQL 8.3?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Since I don't think that a datatype solution is the way to go,
> >> I don't feel that we are as far away from an agreement as Bruce
> >> is worried about.
> 
> > Well, from where I sit, there is one person saying give me the foot gun,
> > and Heikki saying he wants a bullet-proof type system, and you and I are
> > in the middle, so the big problem is I don't see a concensus forming,
> > and we have been discussing this for a while.
> 
> The people who actually use tsearch2 seem to all have the same opinion ...
> so I think we can't go too far in the bullet-proofing direction.
> 
> But I would like a design that is bulletproof in dump/reload scenarios,
> and I think it's fair to question that aspect of the tsearch2 design
> because we've seen many reports of people having trouble updating
> databases that use tsearch2.

Yea, look at the trouble we are having trying to underestand it all.

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