Thread: Empty dictionary file when creating text search dictionary

Found this a couple of weeks back and just re-tested against head:

CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY with an empty thesaurus file will crasch 
the backend.

To reproduce:
$ echo "" > $(pg_config --sharedir)/tsearch_data/thesaurus_empty.ths

Then use this thesaurus to create a text search dictionary:
CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY thesaurus_astro (    TEMPLATE = thesaurus,    DictFile = thesaurus_empty,    Dictionary =
english_stem
);

It doesn't matter if the file is compleatly empty or just have comments. 
The result is the same.
Add a word:
$ echo "foo: bar" >> $(pg_config 
--sharedir)/tsearch_data/thesaurus_empty.ths

Creating the dictionary will now work.

Sorry  I have no patch to attach.

Regards,
roppert

PS. I happend to send this mail from a wrong, non-subscribed, address 
earlier so if it turns up duplicated I apologize.

Robert Gravsjö <robert@blogg.se> writes:
> Found this a couple of weeks back and just re-tested against head:
> CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY with an empty thesaurus file will crasch 
> the backend.

Fixed, thanks for the report!
        regards, tom lane