Fwd: tsvector extraction patch

Sorry, forgot to reply-all.

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From: Mike Rylander <mrylander(at)gmail(dot)com>
Date: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] tsvector extraction patch
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Alvaro
Herrera<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Mike Rylander escribió:
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Hans-Juergen Schoenig --
>> PostgreSQL<postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
>
>> > test=# SELECT * FROM tsvcontent(to_tsvector('english', 'i am pretty sure
>> > this is a good patch'));
>> > lex   | rank
>> > --------+------
>> > good   |    8
>> > patch  |    9
>> > pretti |    3
>> > sure   |    4
>> > (4 rows)
>> >
>>
>> This looks very useful!  I wonder if providing a "weight" column would
>> be relatively simple?  I think this would present problems with the
>> cast-to-text[] idea that Peter suggests, though.
>
> Where would the weight come from?
>

From a tsvector column that has weights set via setweight().

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