Just following up here since I haven't gotten a reply -- I'd love to work with someone from the Postgres community on a plan to make the tsearch_extras functionality available as part of mainline postgres.
-Tim Abbott
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:41 PM, Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu> wrote:
Hello,
I'm a maintainer of the Zulip open source group chat application. Zulip depends on a small (~200 lines) postgres extension called tsearch_extras (https://github.com/zbenjamin/tsearch_extras) that returns the actual (offset, length) pairs of all the matches for a postgres full text search query. This extension allows Zulip to do its own highlighting of the full text search matches, using a more complicated method than what Postgres supports natively.
I think tsearch_extras is probably of value to others using postgres full-text search (and I'd certainly love to get out of the business of maintaining an out-of-tree postgres extension), so I'm wondering if this feature (or a variant of it) would be of interest to upstream?
