Re: new function for tsquery creartion

> Patch 03 (the documentation) needed some proof-reading.  I've attached
> a new version of that patch with some small suggested improvements.

Thanks, I'm definitely going to use this.

> Is there anything to_tsquery() can do that websearch_to_tsquery() 
> can't?

Currently, no.

> Would it be OK to use user-supplied websearch strings?
> Ie can it produce a syntax error?

I believe that's the most important question. After a private discussion 
with Theodor I came to a conclusion that the most beneficial outcome 
would be to suppress all syntax errors and give user some result, 
cutting all misused operators along the way. This requires some changes, 
though.

> Is there any way to write OR as a term (that's a valuable non-stopword 
> in French)?

You could quote it like this: websearch_to_tsquery('"or"');

Moreover, it's still possible to use & and |.

> It seems like AROUND(x) should be documented also more generally for
> tsquery, but I see there is some discussion about how that should
> look.

Personally, I like <N, M> operator better. It would instantly deprecate 
AROUND(N), which is why I'm going to drop it.

> By the way, not this patch's fault, but I noticed that commit
> f5f1355dc4d did this:
> 
> -                               (errmsg("query contains only
> stopword(s) or doesn't contain lexeme(s), ignored")));
> +                               (errmsg("text-search query contains
> only stop words or doesn't contain lexemes, ignored")));
> 
> But the old test still appears in an example in 
> doc/src/sgml/textsearch.sgml.

Will fix this.

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