On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:32:07PM -0700, Gralewski Daniel wrote:
> Does tsearch2 support indexing on bytea column?
>
> I'll have a table where i'll put any kind of file:
> xml, txt, pdf, gif, jpg. And i would like textual
> search on it.
As long as you can come up with text for the files ... what use would be
indexing a PDF, which is mostly compressed information? Or a JPEG file,
which is only a stream of bits? You could of course write some
descriptive keywords for images, or extract the whole text from the PDF
with some tool, and index that.
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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