Re: Include Lists for Text Search

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Simon Riggs wrote:

> It seems possible to write your own functions to support various
> possibilities with text search.
>
> One of the more common thoughts is to have a list of words that you
> would like to include, i.e. the opposite of a stop word list.
>
> There are clear indications that indexing too many words is a problem
> for both GIN and GIST. If people already know what they'll be looking
> for and what they will never be looking for, it seems easier to supply
> that list up front, rather than hide it behind lots of hand-crafted
> code.
>
> Can we include that functionality now?

This could be realized very easyly using dict_strict, which returns
only known words, and mapping contains only this dictionary. So,
feel free to write it and submit.

Regards,
Oleg
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