Re: Weird problem concerning tsearch functions built into postgres 8.3, assistance requested

> One of the tables we're using in the 8.1.3 setups currently running
> includes phone numbers as a searchable field (fti_phone), with the
> results of a select on the field generally looking like this: 'MMM':2
> 'NNNN':3 'MMM-NNNN':1.  MMM is the first three digits, NNNN is the
> fourth-seventh.
>
> The weird part is this: On the old systems running 8.1.3, I can look up
> a record by
> fti_phone using any of the three above items; first three, last four, or
> entire number including dash.  On the new system running 8.3.1, I can do
> a lookup by the first three or the last four and get the results I'm
> after, but any attempt to do a lookup by the entire MMM-NNNN version
> returns no records.

Parser was changed:
postgres=# select  * from ts_debug('123-4567');
  alias |   description    | token | dictionaries | dictionary | lexemes
-------+------------------+-------+--------------+------------+---------
  uint  | Unsigned integer | 123   | {simple}     | simple     | {123}
  int   | Signed integer   | -4567 | {simple}     | simple     | {-4567}
(2 rows)
postgres=# select  * from ts_debug('abc-defj');
       alias      |           description           |  token   |  dictionaries
|  dictionary  |  lexemes
-----------------+---------------------------------+----------+----------------+--------------+------------
  asciihword      | Hyphenated word, all ASCII      | abc-defj | {english_stem}
| english_stem | {abc-defj}
  hword_asciipart | Hyphenated word part, all ASCII | abc      | {english_stem}
| english_stem | {abc}
  blank           | Space symbols                   | -        | {}
|              |
  hword_asciipart | Hyphenated word part, all ASCII | defj     | {english_stem}
| english_stem | {defj}

Parser in 8.1 threats any [alnum]+-[alnum]+ as a hyphenated word, but 8.3 treats
[digit]+-[digit]+ as two separated numbers.

So, you can play around pre-process texts before indexing or have a look on
regex dictionary (http://vo.astronet.ru/arxiv/dict_regex.html)
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