Re: Simplifying Text Search

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Simplifying Text Search
Date: 2007-11-14 02:18:07
Message-ID: 1195006687.4378.42.camel@ebony.site
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On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 13:32 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 schrieb Gregory Stark:
> > "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > > What we'd need is a way to convert a LIKE pattern into a tsquery
> > > ('%foo%bar%' => 'foo & bar'). Then you might even be able to sneak
> > > index-optimized text search into existing applications. Might be worth a
> > > try.
> >
> > I don't think that's the right direction to go. Notably "%foo%bar%" isn't
> > the same thing as "foo & bar". Also most tsearch queries can't be expressed
> > as LIKE patterns anyways.
>
> The requirement is to express LIKE patterns as tsearch queries, not the other
> way around.

+1

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Simon Riggs
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