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Re: LedgerSMB 1.3. PostgreSQL 8.3, and full text search



On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:19:37 -0700
"Chris Travers" <..hidden..> wrote:

> Hi all;
> 
> I am wondering what everyone thinks we should do about full text
> search, PostgreSQL 1.3, and tsearch2.    PostgreSQL 8.3 will be
> changing a lot of the full text search interface.  Personally I want
> to stay as far away from maintaining multiple schemas as possible
> because this is a recipe for having lots fo bugs go unfixed for some
> users.

It is likely/hopeful that 1.3 will be out before 8.3. Let's cross the
bridge when we come to it.

> 
> Basically it comes back to one of the possibilities for the original
> Occam's Razor:
> "One should not needlessly multiply entities."
> 
> I see a couple of possibilities:
> 1)  I don't know if this is possible but if we can create a "wrapper"
> for PostgreSQL 8.3 which mimics the old behavior, we can simply add
> that as an optional db script.
> 2)  If not, I am going to suggest we go through and abstract out the
> tsearch2 stuff so that this can be mapped to both old and new
> behavior.

#2 is how it should be. Like I said in a previous post, we need to push
those into procs so we can just install the ones required based on the
version.

Joshua D. drake

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