Hey everyone,

I think it's great that the full text search parser breaks hyphenated words 
into multiple parts.  I think this really could help, but something is not 
right.


rasmas_hackathon=> select * from ts_debug( 'gn-foo' );
      alias      |           description           |  token  |  dictionaries  | 
 dictionary  | lexemes  
-----------------+---------------------------------+---------+----------------+--------------+----------
 asciihword      | Hyphenated word, all ASCII      | gn-foo  | {english_stem} | 
english_stem | {gn-foo}
 hword_asciipart | Hyphenated word part, all ASCII | gn      | {english_stem} | 
english_stem | {gn}
 blank           | Space symbols                   | -       | {}             | 
             | 
 hword_asciipart | Hyphenated word part, all ASCII | foo     | {english_stem} | 
english_stem | {foo}
 blank           | Space symbols                   |         | {}             | 
             | 
(6 rows)


But why does to_tsquery() AND them?

rasmas_hackathon=> select * from to_tsquery( 'gn-foo | bandage' );
             to_tsquery             
------------------------------------
 'gn-foo' & 'gn' & 'foo' | 'bandag'
(1 row)


Perhaps my vector is like this:

rasmas_hackathon=> select to_tsvector( 'gn series bandage' );
         to_tsvector         
-----------------------------
 'bandag':3 'gn':1 'seri':2
(1 row)


The rank is so bad.

rasmas_hackathon=> select ts_rank_cd( to_tsvector( 'gn series bandage' ), 
to_tsquery( 'gn-foo | bandage' ) );
 ts_rank_cd 
------------
        0.1
(1 row)

Without the hyphen the rank is better, despite the process above.

rasmas_hackathon=> select ts_rank_cd( to_tsvector( 'gn series bandage' ), 
to_tsquery( 'gn | bandage' ) );
 ts_rank_cd 
------------
        0.2
(1 row)


So wouldn't this be a better query for hyphenated words?

 'gn-foo' | 'gn' | 'foo'


Aside: Best i can tell the parser is giving instructions to pushval_morph() to 
treat hyphenated words as 
"same variants".


thanks,
Brian


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