Re: ts_rank

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Mark wrote:
> > >There's some potentially useful information here:
> > >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/textsearch-controls.html#TEXTSEARCH-RANKING
> > 
> > Thanks for reply. I was reading the documentation of PostgreSQL, but there
> > it is not written the name of the used methods. Everywhere there is written,
> > that ts_rank use standard ranking function. But it is difficult to say which
> > is the standard function. 
> > Somewhere I found that it is maybe based on Vector space model and it seems
> > to be truth, because in the code of tsrank.c is counted the frequency of
> > words, but I am not sure of that :-(
> 
> Oleg, Teodor, can you give me a description of how ts_rank decided how
> to rank items?  Thanks.

Any news on this question?

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