On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Joerg Erdmenger wrote:
> hi
>
> > > me again. How do I find the stopwords that tsearch uses in its standard
> > > configuration? I've looked at contrib/tsearch/dict/porter_english.dct and
> > > get a feeling it's somewhere in there but I can't decipher it. Any
> > > suggestions?
> >
> > You're right. They're encoded in engstoptree :)
> > I suggest you not bother with old tsearch and look to tsearch2 version
> > which is much improved both in performance and flexibility.
> > http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/
> >
> well, I would like but I've got to get it to work on a production server; I
> will try to get the admins to install it but I guess it will take some time -
> meanwhile - is there anyway to get to the list of stopwords so that I can
> build a filter for those as a temporary workaround?
tsearch2 could live with tsearch, so you may play with it.
I attached english.stop file from OpenFTS distribution. But I'm not 100% sure
it's the same as in portereng.c :)
>
> thanks
>
> Joerg
>
Regards,
Oleg
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