Re: Simplifying Text Search

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 20:17 +0000, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> 
>> Granted, @@ is a bit awkward until you get used to it. "x LIKE y" would 
>> read out better, but unfortunately that's already taken ;-).
> 
> Remember, I'm not suggesting we get rid of @@
> 
>> In any case, it's way too late.
> 
> I'm suggesting we add a couple of simple SQL functions that will help
> text search docs be more easily understood.
> 
> It's beta and its valid to respond to usability issues just as we would
> respond to code bugs. Otherwise, why have beta? Late, but not too late. 
> 
> SQLServer, Oracle and MySQL all use functions, not operators. My
> observation would be that we have the hardest and most difficult to
> understand full text search capability. The Contains() function seems
> like a better name than I gave earlier also.
> 
> I love what we've done; I just want more people be able to use it.

Hmmm, my choices are:

SELECT 'a fat cat sat on a mat and ate a fat rat'::tsvector @@ 'cat & 
rat'::tsquery;

Or:

SELECT ts_match('a fat cat sat on a mat and ate a fat rat','cat & rat');

This seems a little too much like the "duh" department to ignore. A set 
of SQL functions would certainly be appropriate here.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake