On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Markus Wollny wrote: > Hello! > > I'm currently testing deployment of tsearch2 on our forum table. The > table is huge in itself - some 2GB of data without the indexes. I have > got PostgreSQL 7.4RC2 running on a test machine, installed tsearch2 to > my database, added the new column to the table and tried to update it in > the recommended fashion: > > UPDATE ct_com_board_message > SET ftindex=to_tsvector('default',coalesce(user_login,'') > ||' '|| coalesce(title,'') ||' '|| coalesce(text,'')); > > It does run for a while but at some point I get "ERROR: word is too > long"; I guess that this is caused by some idiot user(s) writing some > Joycean nonsense (but most probably without the literary value) or > drivelling about their holidays in > Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Wales). Now > what could I do in order to intercept this error?
Word length is limited by 2K. What's exactly the word tsearch2 complained on ? 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch' is fine :) btw, don't forget to configure properly dictionaries, so you don't have a lot of unique words. > > Kind regards > > Markus > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > Regards, Oleg _____________________________________________________________ Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia) Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]