Re: keyword (or fulltext) indexes, any planned developments?

From: Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Marc Beneteau" <mbeneteau(at)catgen(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: keyword (or fulltext) indexes, any planned developments?
Date: 2002-03-01 18:21:30
Message-ID: 200203011821.TAA26014@post.webmailer.de
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On Tuesday 26 February 2002 20:39, Marc Beneteau wrote:
> Are there any plans to provide support for keyword indexes in Postgre? The
> idea is to efficiently index every word in a long text column, in order to
> support queries such as :
>
> Select... from Products where ProductDescription like "%wool%" and
> ProductDescription like "%black%"
>
> This will work but it requires a table scan.

Take a look at OpenFTS ( http://openfts.sourceforge.net/ )

Ian Barwick

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