On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 15:30 -0500, Aaron Bono wrote:
> In another post on a different topic, Rod Taylor said the following:
>
> "A\tcat in the\nhat" might be stored as ARRAY['A', 'cat', 'in', 'the', 'hat'].
>
> This got me thinking. I have a discussion forum for gamers and want
> to provide searching capabilities so the user can type in a phrase
> like "magical bow" and get all posts, sorted by relevance that contain
> these words.
>
> My questions are:
> 1. Will storing the posts in an ARRAY help improve performance of
> these searches? If so, by how much?
It won't help at all. Fast partial matches against arrays is nearly
impossible. You might take a look at tsearch though.
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