tsearch2 column update produces "word too long" error

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Markus Wollny wrote:

Hello!

I'm currently testing deployment of tsearch2 on our forum table. The
table is huge in itself - some 2GB of data without the indexes. I have
got PostgreSQL 7.4RC2 running on a test machine, installed tsearch2 to
my database, added the new column to the table and tried to update it in
the recommended fashion:

UPDATE ct_com_board_message
SET ftindex=to_tsvector('default',coalesce(user_login,'')
||' '|| coalesce(title,'') ||' '|| coalesce(text,''));

It does run for a while but at some point I get "ERROR: word is too
long"; I guess that this is caused by some idiot user(s) writing some
Joycean nonsense (but most probably without the literary value) or
drivelling about their holidays in
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Wales). Now
what could I do in order to intercept this error?

Word length is limited by 2K. What's exactly the word tsearch2 complained on ?
'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch' is fine :)

btw, don't forget to configure properly dictionaries, so you don't have
a lot of unique words.

Kind regards

Markus

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Hello!

Von: Oleg Bartunov [mailto:oleg@sai.msu.su]
Gesendet: Freitag, 21. November 2003 13:06
An: Markus Wollny
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org

Word length is limited by 2K. What's exactly the word
tsearch2 complained on ?
'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch'
is fine :)

This was a silly example, I know - it is a long word, but not too long
to worry a machine. The offending word will surely be much longer, but
as a matter of fact, I cannot think of any user actually typing a 2k+
string without any spaces in between. I'm not sure on which word
tsearch2 complained, it doesn't tell and even logging did not provide me
with any more detail:

2003-11-21 14:06:44 [26497] ERROR: 42601: word is too long
LOCATION: parsetext_v2, ts_cfg.c:294
STATEMENT: UPDATE ct_com_board_message
SET
ftindex=to_tsvector('default',coalesce(user_login,'') ||' '||
coalesce(title,'') ||' '|| coalesce(text,''));

Is there some way to find the exact position?

btw, don't forget to configure properly dictionaries, so you
don't have a lot of unique words.

I won't forget that; I justed wanted to run a quick-off first test
before diving deeper into Ispell and other issues which are as yet a bit
of a mystery to me.

Kind Regards

Markus

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Markus Wollny wrote:

Hello!

Von: Oleg Bartunov [mailto:oleg@sai.msu.su]
Gesendet: Freitag, 21. November 2003 13:06
An: Markus Wollny
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org

Word length is limited by 2K. What's exactly the word
tsearch2 complained on ?
'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch'
is fine :)

This was a silly example, I know - it is a long word, but not too long
to worry a machine. The offending word will surely be much longer, but
as a matter of fact, I cannot think of any user actually typing a 2k+
string without any spaces in between. I'm not sure on which word
tsearch2 complained, it doesn't tell and even logging did not provide me
with any more detail:

2003-11-21 14:06:44 [26497] ERROR: 42601: word is too long
LOCATION: parsetext_v2, ts_cfg.c:294
STATEMENT: UPDATE ct_com_board_message
SET
ftindex=to_tsvector('default',coalesce(user_login,'') ||' '||
coalesce(title,'') ||' '|| coalesce(text,''));

Is there some way to find the exact position?

I'm afraid you need to hack ts_cfg.c:294 yourself to print the word
which's bugging you :)

btw, don't forget to configure properly dictionaries, so you
don't have a lot of unique words.

I won't forget that; I justed wanted to run a quick-off first test
before diving deeper into Ispell and other issues which are as yet a bit
of a mystery to me.

Kind Regards

Markus

Regards,
Oleg
_____________________________________________________________
Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83