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Re: Full-text searching and/or word indexing

Brett W. McCoy <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net>

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From: "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@chapelperilous.net>
To: Thomas Weholt <Thomas@cintra.no>
Cc: "'pgsql-novice@postgresql.org'" <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-06-26T10:46:44Z
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Thomas Weholt wrote:

> I want to use full text searching on my PostgreSQL 7.0.2 database. Ok, to be
> exact I want to somehow be able to type the word 
> alien and get a record set containing "Alien", "Alien 3" and "Alien
> Resurection". ( "Aliens" could should also be returned but that would
> probably take more time, so I`ll go with plain hits to begin with. )

Look in the contrib directory under your source tree for Postgres, and
you'll see a library that does full-text indexing.

Brett W. McCoy                        
                                              http://www.chapelperilous.net
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