Re: Free Text Search

From: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>
To: "Mitch Vincent" <mitch(at)venux(dot)net>, "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>, "McMillen Tom" <McMillT(at)EU(dot)MWHSE(dot)COM>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Free Text Search
Date: 2001-03-27 10:29:22
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.20010327182922.008f0840@192.228.128.13
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At 09:38 AM 26-03-2001 -0500, Mitch Vincent wrote:
>Well, full text searching can be accomplished by using any standard SQL
>query (SELECT * FROM whatever WHERE textfield LIKE '%doda%' -- etc).. Full
>text indexing is another story though.. I'll send some links when I get home
>to some code that I've found here and there that looks promising..

Would that GIST thing help? If it does, any ideas how?

So far the way I might resort to is at the application level.

It'll be nice to be able to do a LIKE '%post%' and have it indexed for at
least some tables.

e.g. create index blah on tablename (lower(data) fulltextops)

Cheerio,
Link.

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