Re: How to use the full text index feature on PostgreSQL

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
>>> Chris wrote:
>>>> aBBISh wrote:
>>>> You need to install & setup tsearch2.
>>>>
>>>> I have a small article about how to do that here:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.designmagick.com/article/27/
>>> Also on page 3 you say, "(normal indexes will only index the first 255
>>> characters of a 'text' field)."
>>>
>>> Is that true?
>> I thought it was the first 8k? There is also an article here:
>>
>> http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/21674/1954?pf=true
>
> Neither is true.  If you create an index on a text column, and that
> column contains a row above the size limit, an error will result.
> There's no mechanism in place to truncate what's indexed in order to
> make it fit the maximum index tuple size; you can do it yourself using
> an expressional index if you want, of course.
>
> The maximum is a bit above 2kB (assuming 8kB pages), but keep in mind
> that some stuff is compressed before being indexed, so the actual data
> length may be higher.
>

Thanks for the tips. I've fixed them up in the article :)

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