Re: Simplifying Text Search

Am Dienstag, 13. November 2007 schrieb Gregory Stark:
> "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > What we'd need is a way to convert a LIKE pattern into a tsquery
> > ('%foo%bar%' => 'foo & bar').  Then you might even be able to sneak
> > index-optimized text search into existing applications.  Might be worth a
> > try.
>
> I don't think that's the right direction to go. Notably "%foo%bar%" isn't
> the same thing as "foo & bar". Also most tsearch queries can't be expressed
> as LIKE patterns anyways.

The requirement is to express LIKE patterns as tsearch queries, not the other 
way around.

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Peter Eisentraut
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