Re: Replacement for Oracle Text - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Replacement for Oracle Text
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Msg-id 20160219131952.GC30326@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Replacement for Oracle Text  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Replacement for Oracle Text  (s d <daku.sandor@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:53:26AM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On 19 February 2016 at 11:46, Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>     Daniel Westermann schrieb am 19.02.2016 um 12:41:
>     >>>> if I'd need to implement/replace Oracle Text (ww.oracle.com/
>     technetwork/testcontent/index-098492.html).
>     >>>>> What choices do I have in PostgreSQL (9.5+) ?
>     >
>     >>Postgres also has a full text search (which I find much easier to use
>     than Oracle's):
>     >>
>     >>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/textsearch.html
>     >
>     > Yes, i have seen this. Can this be used to index and search binary
>     documents, e.g. pdf ?
>
>     Ah, no. That's not possible
>
>
> ...not possible, Yet.
>
> PostgreSQL grows by adding the features people need and its changing rapidly. 

I wonder if PLPerl could be used to extract the words from a PDF
document and create a tsvector column from it.

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