Re: (bash the search engine) Don't split on underscore

From: Reece Hart <reece(at)harts(dot)net>
To: Hannes Dorbath <light(at)theendofthetunnel(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: (bash the search engine) Don't split on underscore
Date: 2006-12-19 19:32:30
Message-ID: 1166556750.4249.18.camel@snafu.site
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On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 13:25 +0100, Hannes Dorbath wrote:

> I think it would be useful to adjust the parser to not split on underscores:
>
> In case I'd like to lookup PG's to_number() function I won't get
> anything useful. Number is contained nearly everywhere and to is
> configured as stop word. Same with most other functions.

That would be useful and almost certainly result in better specificity.
A counter example is searching for "information schema", for which you'd
probably want hits to "information_schema" as well.

-Reece

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