Re: Comparing tsearch2 vectors.

From: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com>
To: Achilleus Mantzios <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Comparing tsearch2 vectors.
Date: 2004-07-13 03:31:53
Message-ID: 40F357A9.1060204@trade-india.com
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Achilleus Mantzios wrote:

>O kyrios Rajesh Kumar Mallah egrapse stis Jul 12, 2004 :
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>>Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
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>>>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
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>>SELECT to_tsvector('handycrafts exporters of delhi') @@ to_tsquery('handycraft&exporting');
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>>will be true.
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>Define what you want, and then read tsearch2 userguide.
>I'm sure you'll find your way :)
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The requirement is different than full text search.
I am not searching a word in a collection of words (text)
rather comparing two strings after all the words in those
strings are stemmed. Hope my requirement is clear now.

Regds
mallah.

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>>Regds
>>Mallah.
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>>>where idxfti is your tsvector column.
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>>>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.
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>>>>I hope i am able to clarify.
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>>>>Regds
>>>>Mallah.
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>>>>Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
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>>>>>O kyrios Rajesh Kumar Mallah egrapse stis Jul 12, 2004 :
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>>>>>>Hi,
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>>>>>>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.
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>>>>>>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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