Re: Bunch of tsearch fixes and cleanup

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> - readstopwords calls recode_and_lowerstr directly, instead of using the
>>  "wordop" function pointer in StopList struct. All callers used
>> recode_and_lowerstr anyway, so this simplifies the code a little bit. Is
>> there any external dictionary implementations that would require
>> different behavior?
>
> I don't think eliminating wordop altogether is such a hot idea; some
> dictionary could possibly want to do different processing than that.
>
> Something that was annoying me yesterday was that it was not clear
> whether we had fixed every single place that uses a tsearch config file
> to assume that the file is in UTF8 and should be converted to database
> encoding.  So I was thinking of hardwiring the "recode" part into
> readstopwords, and using wordop just for the "lowercase" part, which
> seemed to me like a saner division of labor.  That is, UTF8 is a policy
> that we want to enforce globally, but lowercasing maybe not, and this
> still leaves the door open for more processing besides lowercasing.
>
> Oleg, Teodor, what do you think about this?
>

I agrre with utf-8 recoding and please, don't lowercase. Dictionaries
are very different.

>             regards, tom lane
>

     Regards,
         Oleg
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