Re: ts_rank

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Mark <Marek(dot)Balgar(at)seznam(dot)cz>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: ts_rank
Date: 2011-09-11 02:18:44
Message-ID: 201109110218.p8B2Iik21211@momjian.us
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Mark wrote:
> >There's some potentially useful information here:
> >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/textsearch-controls.html#TEXTSEARCH-RANKING
>
> Thanks for reply. I was reading the documentation of PostgreSQL, but there
> it is not written the name of the used methods. Everywhere there is written,
> that ts_rank use standard ranking function. But it is difficult to say which
> is the standard function.
> Somewhere I found that it is maybe based on Vector space model and it seems
> to be truth, because in the code of tsrank.c is counted the frequency of
> words, but I am not sure of that :-(

Oleg, Teodor, can you give me a description of how ts_rank decided how
to rank items? Thanks.

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