Re: Mailing list search engine: surprising missing results?

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 03:47:29PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 08:27:41AM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> >> The reason is that the 'moore' in 'boyer-moore' is stemmed, since it
> >> is at the end of the word, while the 'moore' in 'Boyer-Moore-Horspool'
> >> isn't:
> 
> > Wow, he showed me this problem earlier but I never suspected it was
> > stemming issue because I never considered proper nowns could be
> > stem-adjusted, but it is obvious they can.
> 
> I wonder if we should change that so that components of a compound
> word are consistently stemmed the same way.

I don't see the value in a change --- it might break the same number of
cases it fixes.

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