Re: contrib/fulltextindex - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Oleg Bartunov
Subject Re: contrib/fulltextindex
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.44.0207221129060.7568-100000@ra.sai.msu.su
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In response to contrib/fulltextindex  ("Tomas Lehuta" <lharp@aurius.sk>)
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It's known problem with LIKE and non-C locale.
You may try contrib/tsearch for full text search. It's works with
locale and does index search.
Oleg
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Tomas Lehuta wrote:

> Hello!
>
> i've got a question on my problem..
> i'm using contrib/fulltextindex to index my tables to do a fulltext search
> but i'm using a non-default locale settings on my database.
> i found out that if the locale is default 'C' then fulltextindex tables are
> scanned very fast using btree indices. for sure, i'm using prefix match
> (string ~ '^blabla') which is supposed to scan the table in this way.. so
> it's ok!
> but if i change to different locale (i.e. sk_SK or cs_CZ) the fti table is
> scanned sequentially and it's very slow.. so, the more words are there in my
> fti table and the more more words i'm trying to search at once using table
> join the slower is the search..
>
> so my question is.. is this a bug or the prefix match is not supported to
> perform a table scan using indices under non-default locale?
> please, give me a hint..
>
> regards
>
> Tomas Lehuta
>
>
>
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