| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Simplifying Text Search |
| Date: | 2007-11-12 20:35:20 |
| Message-ID: | 20071112203520.GB22963@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Granted, @@ is a bit awkward until you get used to it. "x LIKE y" would
> read out better, but unfortunately that's already taken ;-).
Actually LIKE does not make much sense when you have 'hay & needle'.
Probably MATCHES would be a better term ... but then, MySQL defines a
strange thing called MATCH/AGAINST; so apparently you use "MATCH (column
list) AGAINST (pattern spec)"
None of this is standard though ...
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/CTMLCN8V17R4
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