Re: simple web search

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 01:31:14PM -0500, Joe wrote:
>> Hello Louis-David,
>>
>> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 17:27 +0100, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
>>> I'm considering implementing a search box on my review web site
>>> http://lesculturelles.net and am looking for a simple way to match
>>> entered words against several columns on related tables: show.show_name,
>>> story.title, person.firtname, person.lastname, etc.
>>>
>>> What is the most elegant way to build a single query to match search
>>> words with multiple columns?
>>
>> You may want to take a look at contrib/tsearch2.
>
> Thanks Joe, I initially wanted to avoid dipping my toe into tsearch2 but
> it might be what I need after all :)

Don't be afraid, it's not so difficult to start.

    Regards,        Oleg
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