On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
> John DeSoi <desoi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> Is there an easy way to change '/' to be treated like '-' ? I've
>> looked over the do***entation several times and could not find
>> anything. Even just a way to get the two tokens 'home' and 'work'
>> without the joined form would be helpful.
>
> Seems like the simplest solution is just to apply
> regexp_replace(text, '/', '-', 'g')
> before letting the text search stuff have the string. If you're
> using a trigger to update a tsvector column, this would be pretty
> trivial to do within the trigger.
>
> In general there seem to be a lot of ways that people wish they
> could tweak the text search parser, and telling them to write
> their own parser isn't a very helpful response for most folk.
> I don't have an idea about how to improve the situation, but
> it seems like something that should be thought about.
Sure, we thought about this. The most difficult part in user-configurable
parser (we thought about table-driven finite automata) is the foolproof
design. There are should be algorithms for testing validity of finite
automata, but we don't know any effective way.
Regards,
Oleg
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