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From Achilleus Mantzios
Subject Re: Efficient Searching of Large Text Fields
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In response to Re: Efficient Searching of Large Text Fields  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
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O Oleg Bartunov έγραψε στις 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.

> 
> 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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