Re: unaccent contrib

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Tom Lane wrote:

> Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com> writes:
>> On 21-09-2011 13:28, Daniel VАzquez wrote:
>>> "unaccent" is compatible with postgresql 8.4 (but not is in their contrib
>>> version distribution)
>
>> No, it is not. AFAICS it is necessary to add some backend code that is not in 8.4.
>
> [ pokes at it ]  Yeah, you are right.  The version of unaccent that is
> in our source tree is a filtering dictionary, and therefore cannot
> possibly work with backends older than 9.0 (when the filtering
> dictionary feature was added).
>
> So I'm wondering where the OP read that it was compatible with 8.4.
> Our own documentation about it certainly does not say that.  It's
> possible that Oleg and Teodor had some prototype version, different
> from what got committed to our tree, that would work in 8.4.

AFAIR, the last version without filtering feature is
http://www.sigaev.ru/misc/unaccent-0.2.tar.gz
    Regards,        Oleg
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