Re: tsearch bug in 7.2.1?

Ross - maybe we could work on a little function for tsearch - parse_query()
or something like that.  It could return true or false depending on whether
it would cause tsearch to error or not...

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Ross J.
> Reedstrom
> Sent: Friday, 16 August 2002 4:59 AM
> To: Oleg Bartunov
> Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne; Hackers
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] tsearch bug in 7.2.1?
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:59:20AM +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > tsearch has compiled-in stop-list, it's currently just not flexible
> > as OpenFTS does. We plan to move most functionality to tsearch but
> > currently have no time. Feel free to join us to speedup tsearch
> > development.
>
> Oleg -
> I think Chris's issue might be the same one I ran into just last night.
> (BTW, thanks for tsearch and the OpenFTS work, it's really great)
> My problem is that queries with only stopwords throw an ERROR, rather
> than a WARNING or NOTICE. This means We've got to deal with catching an
> exception so our middleware doesn't spew ugly errors and tracebacks at
> our endusers, and I've got to deal with cleaning up the transaction.
>
> Having the behavior be "issue a notice and return no match" would give
> us a reasonably functional interface: if I don't implement reading the
> NOTICE, I get confused users ('huh? "the" doesn't match anything?')
> rather than irate users ('Your search interface sucks! It keeps
> crashing!')
>
> Oh, well, off to implement some try: catch: logic.
>
> Ross
>
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