Re: Word Indexing

> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Chris Ruprecht wrote:
>
> > Hi all, specially the developers!
> >
> > There is a feature which I would like to see - but which, I suppose, will not make it into PostGreSQL any time soon. It would mean to re-write a lot of the indexing (my guess). It's called 'Word Indexing" and it's functionality would allow something like
> >
> > Select * from text_table
> > where text_table.text contains 'Red'
> > and text_table.text contains 'Blue*'
> > and text_table.text not contains 'Green';
> >
> > I actually have an application where this would come in extremely handy. Can anybody give me a clue if this is planned for any time in the foreseeable future?
>
> We're a thinking about integration our ful-text search engine into postgres.
> currently you can use something like we do in fts.postgresql.org.
> We plan to release in Open Source as soon as we prepare documentation.
> In short, look at contrib/intarray

Oleg, great. Glad you are working on that. I know Marc has some thing
installed and I really want to have that feature native in 7.2.

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