Re: Simplifying Text Search

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, "Aidan Van Dyk" <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Simplifying Text Search
Date: 2007-11-13 12:32:55
Message-ID: 200711131332.56853.peter_e@gmx.net
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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.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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