Finding matching words in a word game

From: Alexander Farber <alexander(dot)farber(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Finding matching words in a word game
Date: 2013-03-05 09:29:29
Message-ID: CAADeyWgZjZfQ0qsxobewSjhARan5T-fu50tf6gMf3ZsR4OjBug@mail.gmail.com
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Hello,

is there maybe a clever way of finding all possible words
from a given set of letters by means of PostgreSQL
(i.e. inside the database vs. scanning all database
rows by a PHP script, which would take too long) -
if the dictionary is kept in a simple table like:

create table good_words (
word varchar(16) primary key,
stamp timestamp default current_timestamp
);

I could add a column above, where same letters as in "word"
would be sorted alphabetically... but then I don't know.

I've described my question in more detail at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15220072/postgresql-and-word-games

Thank you for any suggestions
Alex

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