Re: Full text indexing of documents

On Feb 18, 2008 10:08 AM, Leo <fleovey(at)jus(dot)gov(dot)ar> wrote:
> How can I create the tsvector data for large text files WITHOUT loading the
> text into a column of the DB?
> I did it using 2 tables (one with the text inserted with a perl program) and
> copying the tsvectors and removing the table with the text, but it is not
> easy to add data this way.
> The text files are "frozen" HTML documents so I don't need a trigger to
> update the tsvector, all I store is a URL of the text.
> So what I need is a way to point to a file (maybe there is a special data
> type?) and create the tsvector from the document.

Try using pg_read_file() to see if it helps you:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADMIN-GENFILE