Re: How to submit Tsearch V2 ?

Chris,

what if we write, that old tsearch (v1) is deprecated in 7.4 and will be
obsoleted in 7.5 and put tsearch-v1.tar.gz on our site.
Oleg

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Teodor Sigaev wrote:

> I think with upgrade X.Y to X.Y+1 version of pgsql you need dump/restore all
> databases, isn't it?
>
> So, for upgrading tsearch to V2 you need to do following:
> 1 rename columns or typecast for type txtidx to tsvector,  query_txt to tsquery
> 2 rename function txt2txtidx to to_tsvector, ( may be to strip(to_tsvector()),
>    now tsvector has information for ranking ), trigger 'tsearch' isn't changed
> 3 operator class (in create index command) gist_txtidx_ops to gist_tsvector_ops
> 4 In queries: operator ## to @@ to_tsquery() and remove mquery_txt typecast
> 5 If your locale of pgsql differ from 'C', execute before first query
>    select set_curcfg('default');
>
> That's all. So upgrade from v1 to v2 isn't difficult.
>
>
>
> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >>>>>Out of interest - is it completely backwards compatible?
> >>>>
> >>>>unfortunately, no
> >>>
> >>>Then surely fully replacing tsearch will cause badness?
> >>
> >>I see, so are you suggesting separate dir for tsearch v2 ?
> >
> >
> > Well, we use tserach 1 extensively.  I want to be able to upgrade to 7.4 and
> > have nothing break!
> >
> > If things will break, then you need to have a tsearch2 dir instead.
> >
> > Chris
> >
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Regards,    Oleg
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