Thread: Full Text Search : Parse date

On Tue, 11 May 2010, Micka?l DA ROCHA wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have a document that contains a date (french date for example) : 28-04-2009 (28 April 2009)
>
> In the to_tsvector function, it is noted as :
> '-04':2 '-2009':3 '28':1
>
> Is it possible to have something like that (a date) :
> '28-04-2009':1
>
> Does a Parser Token Type for date exists ? (? DD-MM-YYYY ?, ? DD-MM-YY ?, ? YYYY-MM-DD ?, ? YY-MM-DD ?, with ? - ? or
?/ ?) 
> (we haven't found it)
>
> Is there another solution ? Any clue ?

you can write your own function to transform date to the format of tsearch parser.


     Regards,
         Oleg
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On 11/05/10 21:19, Mickaël DA ROCHA wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a document that contains a date (french date for example) :
> 28-04-2009 (28 April 2009)
>
> In the to_tsvector function, it is noted as :
>
> ’-04’:2 ‘-2009’:3 ’28’:1
>
> Is it possible to have something like that (a date) :
>
> ‘28-04-2009’:1

You'll probably *also* want to continue to output the current year,
month and day (though probably without hyphens), so people can still
search for (eg) "2009".

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Craig Ringer