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Re: pg_trgm

Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>

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From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
To: robertmhaas@gmail.com
Cc: peter_e@gmx.net, ishii@postgresql.org, ishii@sraoss.co.jp, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, andres@anarazel.de, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, teodor@sigaev.ru
Date: 2010-05-27T23:54:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> What I can't help wondering as I'm reading this discussion is -
> Tatsuo-san said upthread that he has a problem with pg_trgm that he
> does not have with full text search.  So what is full text search
> doing differently than pg_trgm?

Problem with pg_trgm is, it uses isascii() etc. to recognize a letter,
which will skip any non ASCII range character in C locale.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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