Re: full text search in 8.3

Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> andy wrote:
>> Is there any chance there is an easier way to backup/restore?  On one 
>> hand, its not too bad, and it'll only be once (correct?).  Now that 
>> fts is in core future backup/restores will work, right?  I think it's 
>> analogous to telling someone they are updating from tsearch2 to 
>> tsearch3, and it might be a little more painful than just a 
>> backup/restore.
>>
>> On the other hand I think a backup/restore will pollute the new db 
>> with a bunch of functions and types that wont ever be used, so it's so 
>> much cleaner to build it by hand.
>>
>> Are there other fts users that might have opinions on that?
> 
> I'm not really a tsearch user (just played with it a bit once). But I 
> wondered if you are aware that you can prevent certain objects from 
> being restored
> quite easiy if you use pg_dump and pg_restore together with "custom 
> format" (-Fc). There is some option to pg_restore that reads the dump, 
> and ouputs a table of contents. You can then remove some entries from 
> that list, and pass the modified list to pg_restore which will skip 
> entries that do not show up on your modified list.
> 
> Maybe we could document some regexp, awk script, or similar that strips 
> the tsearch stuff from such a table of contents?
> 
> regards, Florian Pflug
> 

Ahh, I did not know that... I'll try that out and see if I can come up 
with something.  Thanks!

-Andy