On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> O Oleg Bartunov ?????? ???? Jun 14, 2006 :
>
>> Don't invent a wheel and use contrib/tsearch2 for that.
>
> Hi Oleg,
>
> i just wanted to ask if anything close to
> exact phrase matching could be deployed/implemented with tsearch2.
not yet, but doable, since we have inverted index support now.
Looking for sponsorship.
>
>>
>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Aaron Bono wrote:
>>
>>> In another post on a different topic, Rod Taylor said the following:
>>>
>>> "A\tcat in the\nhat" might be stored as ARRAY['A', 'cat', 'in', 'the',
>>> 'hat'].
>>>
>>> This got me thinking. I have a discussion forum for gamers and want
>>> to provide searching capabilities so the user can type in a phrase
>>> like "magical bow" and get all posts, sorted by relevance that contain
>>> these words.
>>>
>>> My questions are:
>>> 1. Will storing the posts in an ARRAY help improve performance of
>>> these searches? If so, by how much?
>>> 2. What functions or libraries are available to make such searching
>>> easy to implement well?
>>> 3. What is the best way to sort by relevance?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Aaron Bono
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>>
>> Regards,
>> Oleg
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Regards, Oleg
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Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
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