Re: Include Lists for Text Search

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 12:58 +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > It seems possible to write your own functions to support various
> > possibilities with text search.
> > 
> > One of the more common thoughts is to have a list of words that you
> > would like to include, i.e. the opposite of a stop word list. 
> > 
> > There are clear indications that indexing too many words is a problem
> > for both GIN and GIST. If people already know what they'll be looking
> > for and what they will never be looking for, it seems easier to supply
> > that list up front, rather than hide it behind lots of hand-crafted
> > code.
> 
> I don't understand what you're proposing. We already have dict_synonym
> that you can use to accept a simple list of words. 

How does that allow me to limit the number of words to a known list?

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