From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Why is there a tsquery data type?
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:26:45 -0700
Message-ID: <46D6FDD5.7080703@cheapcomplexdevices.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12179.1188426957@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <200708292022.l7TKMNm19553@momjian.us>
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> Why does text search need a tsquery data type? I realize it needs
>> tsvector so it can create indexes and updated trigger columns, but it
>> seems tsquery could instead just be a simple text string.
>
> By that logic, we don't need any data types other than text.
>
Could similar logic argue that we'd want special types for regular
expressions too? That seems quite parallel to the tsquery type to me.
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