On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:21:40 -0800,
Mike <akiany@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am new in this field and would appreciate it if someone points me to
> the right direction.
>
> I have a website with lots of users and each have lots of data in
> multiple tables. I want to create a search box where a user can search
> between all their data for the match. I want to search system to
> contain multiple words and be forgiving. How do I do it? Do I have to
> create a flat text of every record in my tables and then run the search
>
> through them for every word entered? That doesn't sound right? It would
>
> exhaust my database with a few users...
You probably want to look at tsearch2.
