Benjamin Arai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The tsearch2 webpage says to do something like

>          SELECT intindex, strTopic FROM tblmessages
>                  WHERE idxfti @@ to_tsquery('default', 'gettysburg &  
> address')
>                  AND strMessage ~* '.*men are created equal.*';
>           intindex |           strtopic
>          ----------+------------------------------
>                  6 | Gettysburg address quotation
>          (1 row)

Right.

> Which would mean I would have to create index on strMessage.  Right?

Wrong.  A btree index on strMessage is utterly worthless for checking
that pattern match, and even if it did work, there's no point in using
a second index to check it rather than fetching the heap entry.

                        regards, tom lane

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