Re: Comparing tsearch2 vectors.

Achilleus Mantzios wrote:

>O kyrios Rajesh Kumar Mallah egrapse stis Jul 12, 2004 :
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>>Dear Mantzios,
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>>I have to get set of banners from database in
>>response to a search term. I want that the search term
>>be compared to the keyword corresponding to the
>>banners stored in database. current i am doing an
>>equality match but i woild like to do it after stemming
>>both the sides (serch term and keywords).
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>You could transform your search terms so that there is the "&"
>separator between them. (& stands for "AND").
>E.g. "handicrafts exporter" becomes "handicrafts&exporter"
>And then
>select * from <your table> where idxfti @@ to_tsquery(<searchterms>);
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But i do not want 'handicraft exporters of delhi' to pop out if i search
for 'handicrafts exporters' whereas

SELECT to_tsvector('handycrafts exporters of delhi') @@ to_tsquery('handycraft&exporting');

will be true.

Regds
Mallah.

>where idxfti is your tsvector column.
>
>E.g.
># SELECT to_tsvector('handycrafts exporters') @@ to_tsquery('handycraft&exporting');
> ?column?
>----------
> t
>(1 row)
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>>So that the banners for the adword say 'incense exporter' is
>>shown even if 'incenses exporter' or 'incense exporters' is
>>searched.
>>
>>I hope i am able to clarify.
>>
>>Regds
>>Mallah.
>>
>>Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
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>>>O kyrios Rajesh Kumar Mallah egrapse stis Jul 12, 2004 :
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>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>We want to compare strings after stemming. Can anyone
>>>>tell me what is the best method. I was thinking to compare
>>>>the tsvector ,but there is no operator for that.
>>>>
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>>>I'd tokenize each string and then apply lexize() to get the
>>>equivalent stemified
>>>word, but what exactly are you trying to accomplish?
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>>>>Regds
>>>>Mallah.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>tradein_clients=# SELECT to_tsvector('handicraft exporters');
>>>>+---------------------------+
>>>>| to_tsvector |
>>>>+---------------------------+
>>>>| 'export':2 'handicraft':1 |
>>>>+---------------------------+
>>>>(1 row)
>>>>
>>>>Time: 710.315 ms
>>>>tradein_clients=#
>>>>tradein_clients=# SELECT to_tsvector('handicrafts exporter');
>>>>+---------------------------+
>>>>| to_tsvector |
>>>>+---------------------------+
>>>>| 'export':2 'handicraft':1 |
>>>>+---------------------------+
>>>>(1 row)
>>>>
>>>>Time: 400.679 ms
>>>>tradein_clients=# SELECT to_tsvector('Hi there') = to_tsvector('Hi there');
>>>>ERROR: operator does not exist: tsvector = tsvector
>>>>HINT: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You may
>>>>need to add explicit type casts.
>>>>tradein_clients=#
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regds
Mallah.

Rajesh Kumar Mallah
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