Re: Text search - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: Text search
Date
Msg-id 4B9F77B9.7080104@archonet.com
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In response to Text search  (Chris Roffler <croffler@earthlink.net>)
Responses Re: Text search
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On 16/03/10 10:29, Chris Roffler wrote:
> I have a text column in a table. We store XML in this column. Now I want to
> search for tags and values

> select * from xxxx where to_tsvector('english',xml_column) @@
> to_tsquery('<name>Citi
> Bank</name>')
>
> This works fine but it also works for any tag as long as the name 'Citi
> Bank' is present.
>
> How do I have to setup my search in order for this to work so I get an exact
> match for the tag and value ?

Would you not be better off with an XML data-type if that's how you want
to treat the data?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/datatype-xml.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/functions-xml.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/xml2.html

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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