Re: ts_rank

Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,<Marek.Balgar@seznam.cz>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-20T02:42:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas  wrote:
> Mark  wrote:
 
>> Could somebody explain me on which methods is based ts_rank and
>> how it works?  I would appreciate some articles, if exist.
 
> As far as I can tell, our documentation contains no useful
> information on this topic whatsoever. :-(
 
There's some potentially useful information here:
 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/textsearch-controls.html#TEXTSEARCH-RANKING
 
Although I don't know if it addresses Mark's question very well.
Personally, I wonder how relevant ts_rank will be after knn-giswt
is out....
 
-Kevin