Re: Text Search zero padding

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Richard Huxton wrote:

> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Richard Greenwood wrote:
>>
>>> So far my best idea is to create a tsvector column containing both
>>> padded and non-padded versions of the value. i.e. put both R1234 and
>>> R0001234 into the tsvector column. This seems pretty brute force, and
>>> I am pretty new to text search, so I'd welcome any suggestions.
>>
>> create your dictionary, which index R0001234 as R0001234 and R1234
>> Seems, dict_regex is your friend.
>> http://vo.astronet.ru/arxiv/dict_regex.html
>
> Nice - I was thinking something like that would be useful, but Googling
> hadn't found me anything. Thanks for that link Oleg.
>
> Wouldn't it be more efficient to have the regex-dictionary map just to R1234
> though? Or R0001234, I suppose.

sure. But having both variants in index allows more flexible searches using
different configurations with/without mapping. Thinks about 'exact' search.

>
>

     Regards,
         Oleg
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