On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Guillaume Smet wrote:
> On 2/19/07, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> wrote:
>> pg_trgm was developed for spelling corrrection and there is a threshold of
>> similarity, which is 0.3 by default. Readme explains what does it means.
>
> Yes, I read it.
>
>> Similarity could be very low, since you didn't make separate column and
>> length
>> of the full string is used to normalize similarity.
>
> Yep, that's probably my problem. Ignored records are a bit longer than
> the others.
>
> I tried the tip in README.pg_trgm to generate a table with all the words.
>
> It can do the work in conjunction of tsearch2 and a bit of AJAX to
> suggest the full words to the users. The reason why I was not using
> tsearch2 is that it's sometimes hard to spell location names
> correctly.
>
> The only problem is that it is still quite slow on a 50k rows words
> table but I'll make further tests on a decent server this afternoon.
You need to wait GiN support.
Regards, Oleg
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