Re: Efficient Searching of Large Text Fields

Don't invent a wheel and use contrib/tsearch2 for that.

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Aaron Bono wrote:

> In another post on a different topic, Rod Taylor said the following:
>
> "A\tcat in   the\nhat" might be stored as ARRAY['A', 'cat', 'in', 'the', 
> 'hat'].
>
> This got me thinking.  I have a discussion forum for gamers and want
> to provide searching capabilities so the user can type in a phrase
> like "magical bow" and get all posts, sorted by relevance that contain
> these words.
>
> My questions are:
> 1. Will storing the posts in an ARRAY help improve performance of
> these searches?  If so, by how much?
> 2. What functions or libraries are available to make such searching
> easy to implement well?
> 3. What is the best way to sort by relevance?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron Bono
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