On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Tim Abbott <tabb...@mit.edu> wrote: > Just following up here since I haven't gotten a reply -- I'd love to work > with someone from the Postgres community on a plan to make the > tsearch_extras functionality available as part of mainline postgres. > > > -Tim Abbott > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:41 PM, Tim Abbott <tabb...@mit.edu> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm a maintainer of the Zulip open source group chat application. Zulip >> depends on a small (~200 lines) postgres extension called tsearch_extras ( >> https://github.com/zbenjamin/tsearch_extras) that returns the actual >> (offset, length) pairs of all the matches for a postgres full text search >> query. This extension allows Zulip to do its own highlighting of the full >> text search matches, using a more complicated method than what Postgres >> supports natively. >> >> I think tsearch_extras is probably of value to others using postgres >> full-text search (and I'd certainly love to get out of the business of >> maintaining an out-of-tree postgres extension), so I'm wondering if this >> feature (or a variant of it) would be of interest to upstream? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Tim Abbott >> >> (See >> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/52c7186d.8010...@strangersgate.com#52c7186d.8010...@strangersgate.com >> for the discussion on postgres mailing lists that caused us to write this >> module in the first place.) >> > Tim,
take a look on this patch (https://commitfest.postgresql.org/7/385/) and contact author. It contains everything you need to your purposes. btw, Stas, check on status "Returned with feedback" ! Regards, Oleg