Re: tsearch2 questions

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:

> 1. What is the advantage of the tsearch2() trigger? Why can't I write my
> own trigger which does approximately:

no advantage, it's just an example.

>
> UPDATE manuscript set manuscript_vector =
> setweight(to_tsvector(manuscript_genre), 'A') ||
> setweight(to_tsvector(manuscript_title), 'B') ||
> to_tsvector(manuscript_abstract);
>
> 2. Is there a way to know in advance the maximum return value of the
> rank function? I have lots of other information to include in the
> goodness-of-match score besides the fulltext match rank so I would
> prefer a tsearch2 rank score between 0 and 1. Do I need to write my own
> rank function?

what's about simple normalization formulae, like rank/(rank+1) ?

Regards,
Oleg
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