Re: full text search in 8.3

Tom Lane wrote:
> andy <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Did the data transfer over? The declarations of the former contrib
>>> functions would of course fail, but type tsvector is still there.
>>> I would like to think that ignoring pg_restore's whining would get
>>> you most of the way there.
>
>> So I tried again: The long answer is no, the table with the tsvector
>> did not get created, and thus, not copied:
>
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: type
>> "tsvector" is only a shell
>> LINE 11: vectors tsvector
>> ^
>> Command was: CREATE TABLE times (
>
> Hmph, that's annoying. I suppose the problem is that the script has
> just set the search path to "public, pg_catalog", and so the failed
> shell tsvector type in public is found in preference to the one in
> pg_catalog.
>
> What you could probably do as a workaround for testing is to create a
> dummy type entry to block the creation of the shell type, say
>
> create domain public.tsvector as pg_catalog.tsvector;
>
> and then run pg_restore. This seems pretty ugly though ... anyone
> have a better idea?
>
> (Knew we should have insisted on seeing a migration plan sooner.
> Oh well.)
>
> regards, tom lane

I have the sql script to create the tables (I was going to pg_dump
--schema-only and edit, but there is a lot of stuff in there). I just
ran it to create empty tables, then did the pg_dump --data-only, and
scripted it in.

Worked fine.

Changed the trigger from calling tsearch2 to tsvector_update_trigger.

Then in my php I changed:
to_tsquery('default', '$fulltext')
to
to_tsquery('$fulltext')

and renamed rank to ts_rank, and my site (well, the test site) is happy
on 8.3.

-Andy