Re: Improve Full text rank in a query

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, b wragg wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm running the following query to match a supplied text string to an actual
> place name which is recorded in a table with extra info like coordinates,
> etc.
>
> SELECT ts_rank_cd(textsearchable_index_col , query, 32 /* rank/(rank+1) */)
> AS rank,*
> FROM gazetteer, to_tsquery('Gunbower|Island|Vic') query
> WHERE query @@ textsearchable_index_col    order by rank desc, concise_ga desc,
> auda_alloc desc LIMIT 10
>
> When I run this I get the following top two results:
>
> Pos    Rank        Name
> State
> 1    0.23769    Gunbower Island Primary School    Vic
> 2    0.23769    Gunbower Island                Vic
>
> The textsearchable_index_col for each of these looks like this:
>
> 'vic':6 '9999':5 'gunbow':1 'island':2 'school':4 'primari':3 'victoria':7
> 'vic':4 '9999':3 'gunbow':1 'island':2 'victoria':5
>
> I'm new to this, but I can't figure out why the "Gunbower Island Primary
> School" is getting top place. How do I get the query to improve the ranking
> so that an exact match (like "Gunbower|Island|Vic") gets a higher position?

you can read documentation and use document length normalization flag,
or write your own ranking function.

>
> Thanks,
>
> bw
>
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     Regards,
         Oleg
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