Re: Full Text Search - Influenceing the creation of tsvector

Pauline Dubois wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> like described in the docs i have created a separate tsvector column to
> hold the output of |to_tsvector|.
>
> UPDATE foo_table SET textsearchable_index_col =
> to_tsvector('english', coalesce(name,'')
>
> The problem is that i have names like 'foo-bar'.
> The char '-' is a space symbol.
> The |tsvector lokks like:|
> "'bar':3 'foo':2 'foo-bar':1"
>
> A
> "SELECT *
> FROM foo_table
> WHERE textsearchable_index_col @@ to_tsquery('foo')"
>
> finds now 'foo-bar', but this is not what i want because i have
> 'foo-bar1,foo-bar2..'. Because of performace only 'foo-bar(n)' should match.
>
> The docs are good but a bit intimidating and i don't understand all.
>
> Is there a way to create the |tsvector lokks like:|
> "''foo-bar':1" so that the space symbol would be ignored?
>
> best regards,
> pauline
>
>
Hi Pauline,

I don't think that you will be able to manage that inbetween the
fulltextsearch functions. But you should give it a try with Regular
Expressions:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/functions-matching.html

Cheers

Andy