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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So there is some conflation/confusion here I think.

*subscribing* to a ft search - +1

putting a tsearch vector in the *subscription* - I'm lost why that is useful.

-Rob

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Graham Binns <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 17 August 2010 10:20, Abel Deuring <abel.deuring@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Also, I don't see why full text search rather than structured search
>>> is needed here - I mean, if the data is structured fairly clearly,
>>> just a regular query would do, wouldn't it?
>>
>> People might be interested to subscribe only to a subset of bugs of a
>> project or source package which affect a certain aspect.
>>
>> Well, a use case would be "subscribe to all new bugs for firefox which
>> mention 'flash'". Sure, you can use tags to do this, but if the tag does
>> not exist for whichever reason, for example, disagreement if it makes
>> sense for the project/package, or if you want to see new bugs in order
>> to decide if the bug should be labeled with the tag, a full text search
>> is quite convenient, I think.
>
> My ha'p'orth of unhelpful confirmation:
>
> +1. We definitely need to support subscribing to a textual search,
> either in the first iteration of search subscriptions or in the
> not-too-distant future.
>
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