Re: Simplifying Text Search - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Aidan Van Dyk
Subject Re: Simplifying Text Search
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Msg-id 20071112204418.GI10585@yugib.highrise.ca
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In response to Re: Simplifying Text Search  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Simplifying Text Search  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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* Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> [071112 15:18]:
> Simon Riggs wrote:

> >Right now, Full Text Search SQL looks like complete gibberish and it
> >dissuades many people from using what is an awesome set of features. I
> >just want to add a little sugar to help people get started.

> Granted, @@ is a bit awkward until you get used to it. "x LIKE y" would 
> read out better, but unfortunately that's already taken ;-).

Can LIKE be easily overloaded in the parser?  So:text LIKE text
works in it's current form, andtsvector LIKE tsquery
also works like the @@?  Or have I gotten all the ts* types all mixed up
again...

But it doesn't buy anything except avoiding the "@@" that people seem to not
grok easily, and it might actually cause more grief, because of people
confusing the 2 forms of LIKE.

a.

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