Re: Re: The new, the improved ... FTS Searching of Mailing List Archives

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Re: The new, the improved ... FTS Searching of Mailing List Archives
Date: 2001-04-28 01:45:24
Message-ID: 200104280145.f3S1jOv26009@candle.pha.pa.us
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> <featurerequest>
> Well if stuff like that ends up in Postgresql would it be possible to index
> LIKE '%xxx%' searches? That way all people have to do is create the
> relevant index and use a fts_ops or something, and voila LIKE '%xxx%'
> searches become faster, with maybe some performance+disk space hit for
> inserts.
>
> Would something like that be difficult to implement? I'm not sure how
> function+fts index would work either.
>
> I hope FTS for postgresql doesn't start looking like Oracle's
> Context/Intermedia... Proprietary interfaces == "lock in" == "ick".
> </featurerequest>

This is what I was hoping... Something to make it automatic.

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