Re: Problem with tsearch and stopwords

Well, seems we treat stop words too formal. Stop word in definition is
a word containing in all documents, so searching for stop word is always
'true', so combination of logical 'or' and stop words will always be
'true'. That means, no useful searching could be done. The same behaviour
is in tsearch2. We'll fix the problem by ignoring stop word in query.
I'd recommend to use tsearch2 instead of tsearch
(http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/) which is deprecated
and will be obsoleted in future version of pgsql.

Oleg
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Joerg Erdmenger wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have an issue with tsearch. I'm using tsearch as a search mechanism on a
> website making various queries created from the words that a user has put in.
> So I query for all the words put in combined with a logical 'and' and also a
> query with all the words combined with a logical 'or'. In the 'and' case
> stopwords are correctly ignored whereas in the 'or' case they are not
> apparently, e.g.
>
> select 'tax&and&work'::mquery_txt;
> mquery_txt
> ----------------
> 'tax' & 'work'
> (1 row)
>
> select 'tax|and|work'::mquery_txt;
> NOTICE: Query contains only stopword(s) or doesn't contain lexem(s), ignored
> mquery_txt
> ------------
>
> (1 row)
>
> Am I missing something? Is the only workaround to filter the stopwords myself
> before I pass the query to tsearch?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joerg
>
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Regards,
Oleg
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