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Re: tsearch2: word position


  • From: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
  • To: Markus Schiltknecht <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
  • Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: tsearch2: word position
  • Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:28:59 +0300
  • Message-id: <45DDA8AB(dot)7010804(at)sigaev(dot)ru>

to_tsvector() could as well return the character number or a byte pointer, I could see advantages for both. But the word number makes little sense to me.

Word number is used only in ranking functions. If you don't need a ranking than you could safely strip positional information.


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Teodor Sigaev                                   E-mail: teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru
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