Re: knngist - 0.8 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dimitri Fontaine
Subject Re: knngist - 0.8
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Msg-id m2wrnpnsl9.fsf@2ndQuadrant.fr
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In response to Re: knngist - 0.8  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: knngist - 0.8  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> I kind of assumed the natural client for KNN-gist was the tsearch full
> text search indexes handling sorting by relevance. For example if I
> search for "Postgres DBA" I should find documents where those words
> appear adjacent first and documents where the two words appear far
> apart in the document sorted further down. Is that not on the list of
> operators supported or planned to be supported?

From the presentation I've seen, the typical use case is more searching
"PostgreSQL DBA" at 100 km around a known location. Or more typical yet,
Pizza restaurants around a known place :)

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr     PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support


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