Have you seen contrib/tsearch ?
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/
Oleg
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, jtx wrote:
> I'm trying to build a really basic search engine for a site I'm using -
> say I'm going to simplify this as much as I can.
>
> Say I have a table with 2 columns: id, message
>
> Person wants to search for the term 'sql'. So, I'd do a simple search
> like:
>
> select id from tablename where message like '%sql%';
>
> If there any way to determine exactly how many times 'sql' is matched in
> that search in each particular row, and then sort by the most matches,
> or am I going to have to write a script to do the sorting for me?
>
> Thanks!
>
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Regards, Oleg
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