Creates a text configuration object.

Syntax

CREATE TEXT CONFIGURATION [ owner.]new-config-name 
   FROM [ owner.]existing-config-name

Parameters

Remarks

You create a text configuration object using another text configuration object as a template and then alter the options as needed using the ALTER TEXT CONFIGURATION statement.

To view the list of all text configuration objects and their settings in the database, query the SYSTEXTCONFIG system view. See SYSTEXTCONFIG system view.

Permissions

Must have DBA or RESOURCE authority.

All text configuration objects have PUBLIC access. Any user with permission to create a text index can use any text configuration object.

Side effects

Automatic commit

See also

• Full text searching
• Text configuration object settings
• Tutorial: Performing a full text search on a GENERIC text index
• Tutorial: Performing a fuzzy full text search
• ALTER TEXT CONFIGURATION statement
• DROP TEXT CONFIGURATION statement
• sa_refresh_text_indexes system procedure

Standards and compatibility

Example

The following CREATE TEXT CONFIGURATION statement creates a text configuration object, max_term_sixteen, using the default_char text configuration object. The subsequent ALTER TEXT CONFIGURATION statement changes the maximum term length for max_term_sixteen to 16.

CREATE TEXT CONFIGURATION max_term_sixteen FROM default_char; 
ALTER TEXT CONFIGURATION max_term_sixteen 
   MAXIMUM TERM LENGTH 16;