On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Florian G. Pflug wrote:
>>
>>> Teodor Sigaev wrote:
>>>> For given schema and server's locale, it's possible to have several FTS
>>>> configurations, but the only one (with special flag enabled)
>>>> could be used as default. Current (active) FTS configuration contains
>>>> in GUC variable tsearch_conf_name. If it's not defined, then FTS
>>>> configuration
>>>> is looked in search_path to match server's locale with default flag
>>>> enabled.
>>>
>>> Isn't the real problem that only _one_ configuration per locale should
>>> be marked as DEFAULT at any time, no matter what schema it is in?
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand you correct (a bit complex :), but it's allowed
>> to have only _one_ DEFAULT configuration per schema/per locale. So,
>> visibility is defined by search_path for given locale.
>
> Yes, but why is that needed? Wouldn't one DEFAULT configuration
> per database be sufficient, and avoid the search_path problems?
>
> Sorry if I'm being stupid - I just can't see what having a different
> DEFAULT configuration per schema buys you.
It's what people asked for. Think about several sub-projects which share one
database, for example. They all may need different configurations.
It's not difficult to specify schema-qualified name of fts configuration,
but the problem arises when using "simple search", since there is no
way to specify fts name in CREATE INDEX command.
Regards, Oleg
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