Re: improved support for compounds in tsearch2

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>> We're badly needed testers of compounds support (german, norway,... 
>> languages),
>> patch for V8.0 release is available 
>> http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/expand_query_8.0.patch.gz 
>
> What I'm interested in is compound word support for English.  For example, if 
> a food has the word 'beefburger' in it, how to I index that as both 'beef' 
> and 'burger'...

Once you get ispell english dictionary with 'compoundwords'  support,
or just write custom dictionary.

>
> Chris
>
    Regards,        Oleg
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