Re: Free Text Search

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..

-Mitch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>
To: "McMillen Tom" <McMillT(at)EU(dot)MWHSE(dot)COM>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Free Text Search

> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, McMillen Tom wrote:
>
> > I have heard that there is no free text search with PostgreSQL but can
find
> > nothing to confirm/deny this.
> >
> > Is there free text search?
> >
> > If not are there any plans for it (I can't see it in the TODO's)
>
> Full text searching isn't built into PostgreSQL but there is a full text
> search library in the contrib directory of the source distribution that
> you can compile and use in PostgreSQL.
>
> -- Brett
> http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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