Re: A couple of tsearch loose ends

Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com> writes:
> I don't understand why this ALTER variation is so different from existing=20
> ones, but maybe the following syntax can't work:
> ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY swedish ALTER STOPWORDS SET swedish;

You'd have to repeat the whole command for each option to be changed,
which given the amount of typing involved seems a bit unpleasant.

There are also historical differences between what is allowed by
the SET var = value syntax and what is allowed in the
parenthesized-option-list syntax. Introducing an inconsistency between
ALTER and CREATE doesn't seem appetizing.

(BTW, does anyone want to teach psql's tab-completion about the new
text search statements?)

regards, tom lane