## Legacy tokenizer
+!!! danger
+ The Legacy tokenizer is deprecated and will be removed in Nominatim 5.0.
+ If you still use a database with the legacy tokenizer, you must reimport
+ it using the ICU tokenizer below.
+
The legacy tokenizer implements the analysis algorithms of older Nominatim
versions. It uses a special Postgresql module to normalize names and queries.
This tokenizer is automatically installed and used when upgrading an older
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This is in particular useful when the database runs on a different server.
-See [Advanced installations](../admin/Advanced-Installations.md#importing-nominatim-to-an-external-postgresql-database) for details.
+See [Advanced installations](../admin/Advanced-Installations.md#using-an-external-postgresql-database) for details.
There are no other configuration options for the legacy tokenizer. All
normalization functions are hard-coded.