Re: Design Table & Search Question

Ian Harding wrote:
> tsearch indexes have to reside in the table where the data is, for the
> automagical functions that come with it to work. You can define a
> view that joins the tables, then search each of the index columns for
> the values you are looking for.

No they don't.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> In my experience, the LIKE searches are fast for relatively small
> datasets, but they are often implemented funny, where a search for
> 'ING' (the company) would return zillions of records with verbs (and
> gerunds) in them. tsearch is smarter than me. It knows where to stem
> words and rarely gives unexpected results. Automotive nomenclature
> will seldom be stemmed so you will get whole word searches which is
> usually fine.
>
> Good luck!
>
> - Ian
>
> On 30 May 2007 11:59:04 -0700, Gabriel Laet <gabriel(dot)laet(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm developing an application where basically I need to store cars.
>> Every car has a Make and Model association. Right now, I have three
>> tables: MAKE, MODEL (make_id) and CAR (model_id).
>>
>> 1) I'm not sure if I need or not to include "make_id" to the CAR
>> table. To me, it's clear to associate just the Model. Am I right?
>>
>> 2) I'm thinking in the best way to search content. I'll need to search
>> data across multiple-tables, and I'm not sure about the best way to do
>> that. Should I use TSearch2 or just a bunch of LIKEs and JOINs
>> statements?
>>
>> I appreciate any help :)
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
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>> TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
>> choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
>> match
>>
>
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> TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
>

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