On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Liza Sazonova <l...@getpitstop.io> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to implement a keyword-based search on my database.
>
> I have some text input (Say, "The A or B and C with D") and a list of
> keywords ("B","X","Y"). I want to identify which keywords are present in
> the text input. I also want to use a thesaurus to process the text input,
> since the keywords have synonyms (for example, "The A : X").
>
> As far as I understand, the only way for me to process text input with a
> thesaurus would be to use tsvector / tsquery; or at least this is the
> fastest way.
> Is it possible to retrieve the tsvector from the text input, then retrieve
> the tsvector from the keyword list, and identify which words are present in
> both?
>
>
>From its description the tsvector_to_array function sounds like it would be
helpful here.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/functions-textsearch.html#TEXTSEARCH-FUNCTIONS-TABLE
tsvector_to_array(input) -> unnest
intersect
tsvector_to_array(keywords) -> unnest
David J.
