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Text search with multiple tables

From
"Mont Rothstein"
Date:
Is it possible to perform a text search with tables A-->>B returning A for matches in B?

What I want to do is to be able take columns from both A and B and perform a search based on the keywords entered by the user that matches A, B, or both but always returns A.

Can this be done?

Thanks,
-Mont

Re: Text search with multiple tables

From
"Mont Rothstein"
Date:
I found a way to do this but I don't know if there is a better way.

What I did was to create a separate index on each table and construct a query like:

SELECT * FROM a WHERE (to_tsvector(...) @@ to_tsquery(...)) OR primaryKey IN (SELECT distinct(foreign_key) FROM b WHERE to_tsvector(...) @@ to_tsquery(...))

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks,
-Mont


On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Mont Rothstein <mont.rothstein@gmail.com> wrote:
Is it possible to perform a text search with tables A-->>B returning A for matches in B?

What I want to do is to be able take columns from both A and B and perform a search based on the keywords entered by the user that matches A, B, or both but always returns A.

Can this be done?

Thanks,
-Mont