Re: [GENERAL] Fragments in tsearch2 headline

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Sushant Sinha wrote:

> I guess it is more readable to add cover separator at the end of a fragment
> than in the front. Let me know what you think and I can update it.

FragmentsDelimiter should *separate* fragments and that says all.
Not very difficult algorithmic problem, it's like perl's
join(FragmentsDelimiter, @array)

>
> I think the right place for cover separator is in the structure
> HeadlineParsedText just like startsel and stopsel. This will enable users to
> specify their own cover separators. But this will require changes to the
> structure as well as to the generateHeadline function. This option will not
> also play well with the default headline generation function.

As soon as we introduce FragmentsDelimiter we should make it
configurable.

>
> The default MaxWords = 35 seems a bit high for this headline generation
> function and 20 seems to be more reasonable. Any thoughts?

I think we should not change default value because it could change
behaviour of existing applications. I'm not sure if it'd be useful and
possible to define default values in CREATE TEXT SEARCH PARSER

>
> -Sushant.
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> wrote:
>
>> btw, is it intentional to have '....' in headline ?
>>
>> =# select ts_headline('1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 1','1&4'::tsquery,'MaxFragments=1');
>> ts_headline
>> -------------------------
>> ... <b>4</b> 5 <b>1</b>
>>
>>
>>
>> Oleg
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Teodor Sigaev wrote:
>>
>> Let me know of any other changes that are needed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Looks like ready to commit, but documentation is needed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Regards,
>> Oleg
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>

Regards,
Oleg
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