Thread: Re: Snowball Stemming Greek support not included in Release 12 beta

On 6/7/19 10:31 AM, Tasos wrote:
> Hi to all,
>  
> Since Oct 2018 - Greekhttps://www.postgresql.org/message-id/E1g4YQa-0003tf-Gr%40gemulon.postgresql.org stemming
algorithmcontributed by Oleg Smirnov is in 
> inclued in the Snowball project.
>  
> I believe it can be included in the Release 12 of postgres 
>  
> Best Regards,
> Bard

Hi,

Postgres' stemmer has been synced with Snowball upstream, but it was before October:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/E1g4YQa-0003tf-Gr%40gemulon.postgresql.org

As mentionned, this will add arabic, indonesian, irish, lithuanian,
nepali, and tamil.

We are now in 12 beta 1 and far after feature freeze, so I am afraid your
request to add greek could only be considered for v13. Sorry.

Regards,

--
Adrien

On 6/7/19 12:19 PM, Tasks wrote:
> 😢 is there a solution to that? 
> Is it possible that we add it ourselves ???
>
> Has anyone worked with this extension -> https://github.com/postgrespro/snowball_ext
>
> Tassos
>


I did not played with this extension, maybe you can add greek to
https://github.com/postgrespro/snowball_ext/tree/master/libstemmer

You should ask to the authors of this extension ;)
https://github.com/postgrespro/snowball_ext#authors

--
Adrien

Adrien Nayrat <adrien.nayrat@anayrat.info> writes:
> Postgres' stemmer has been synced with Snowball upstream, but it was before October:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/E1g4YQa-0003tf-Gr%40gemulon.postgresql.org

> We are now in 12 beta 1 and far after feature freeze, so I am afraid your
> request to add greek could only be considered for v13. Sorry.

Yeah, it's too late to consider this for v12.

Also, while I don't think anybody would object to absorbing the upstream
Greek support, there's nonzero work that has to be done to make it happen.
There's nobody here who's particularly tracking what the Snowball project
does, so someone who actually cares about some new feature would need to
prepare and submit a resynchronizing patch.  The above commit and the
referenced discussion threads should give a good example of what has
to be done.  (Hopefully, a resync patch right now would be a good deal
smaller than that one, though ;-))

            regards, tom lane