Catalin,
what is your need ? What's wrong with this ?
postgres=# select ts_headline('1 2 3 4 5 3 4 abc abc 2 3 xyz','2'::tsquery, 'StartSel=...,StopSel=...')
;
ts_headline
-------------------------------------------
1 ...2... 3 4 5 3 4 abc abc ...2... 3 xyz
Oleg
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 28/10/2007, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> Is there an easy way to generate a headline from separate fragments
>>>> containing the search words and maybe separated by "..."?
>>>
>>> Hmm, the documentation for ts_headline claims it does this already:
> [...]
>>> However, a quick look at the code suggests this is a lie --- I see no
>>> evidence whatever that there's any smarts for putting in ellipses.
>>
>> Probably documentation is not correct here. 'ellipsis-separated' should be
>> treated as a general wording. Default highlighting is <b>..</b> as it
>> stated below in docs.
>
> It seems that I'll have to implement the headline outside the query
> (Python, in my case). I would use to_tsvector and to_tsquery to
> generate the lexemes and the work position, add them to a hash table
> and use the position of the matching lexemes to generate the headline.
>
> I could also highlight the full text and generate the headline I want
> based on it but if I limit the number of excerpts, it gets complicated
> to avoid the same lexeme being shown in all excerpts. Is a lexeme
> always a substring of the corresponding token (so that I can use
> simple regexp)?
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
Regards,
Oleg
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