Re: Partial substrings in FTS - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: Partial substrings in FTS
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Msg-id 4F955CEF020000250004724A@gw.wicourts.gov
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In response to Partial substrings in FTS  (A J <s5aly@yahoo.com>)
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A J <s5aly@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In FTS, how do I search for partial substrings that don't form a
> English word.
> Example, in the text: 'one hundred thirty four'  I want to find
> the records based on 'hun'
>
> SELECT to_tsvector('one hundred thirty four') @@
> to_tsquery('hun'); does not return anything.

It sounds like trigrams might be a better fit for you than text
search.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/pgtrgm.html

-Kevin

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