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Re: Re: The new, the improved ... FTS Searching of Mailing List Archives

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@pop.jaring.my>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Date: 2001-04-28T01:45:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> <featurerequest>
> Well if stuff like that ends up in Postgresql would it be possible to index
> LIKE '%xxx%' searches? That way all people have to do is create the
> relevant index and use a fts_ops or something, and voila LIKE '%xxx%'
> searches become faster, with maybe some performance+disk space hit for
> inserts.
> 
> Would something like that be difficult to implement? I'm not sure how
> function+fts index would work either.
> 
> I hope FTS for postgresql doesn't start looking like Oracle's
> Context/Intermedia... Proprietary interfaces == "lock in" == "ick".
> </featurerequest>

This is what I was hoping... Something to make it automatic.

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