Re: any solution for full text search in Postgres for partial words

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: "Liu, Mingyi" <Mingyi(dot)Liu(at)gpc-biotech(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: any solution for full text search in Postgres for partial words
Date: 2004-08-25 16:24:46
Message-ID: 20040825162446.GB18252@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:14:36AM -0400, Liu, Mingyi wrote:

> 1. Is there existing open-source FTI for postgres that allows partial words search?

I think a trigram-based solution could help you here. In 8.0beta there
is a contrib/pg_trgm module that implements such a thing. It isn't
present on previous versions of Postgres though.

See
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/oddmuse/index.cgi/ReadmeTrgm

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