Re: [HACKERS] lexemes in prefix search going through dictionary modifications

2011-11-08 Thread Tom Lane
Sushant Sinha writes: > I think there is a need to provide prefix search to bypass > dictionaries.If you folks think that there is some credibility to such a > need then I can think about implementing it. How about an operator like > ":#" that does this? The ":*" will continue to mean the same as

Re: [HACKERS] lexemes in prefix search going through dictionary modifications

2011-11-08 Thread Sushant Sinha
I think there is a need to provide prefix search to bypass dictionaries.If you folks think that there is some credibility to such a need then I can think about implementing it. How about an operator like ":#" that does this? The ":*" will continue to mean the same as currently. -Sushant. On Tue,

Re: [HACKERS] lexemes in prefix search going through dictionary modifications

2011-10-25 Thread Sushant Sinha
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 19:27 +0200, Florian Pflug wrote: > Assume, for example, that the postgres mailing list archive search used > tsearch (which I think it does, but I'm not sure). It'd then probably make > sense to add "postgres" to the list of stopwords, because it's bound to > appear in near

Re: [HACKERS] lexemes in prefix search going through dictionary modifications

2011-10-25 Thread Florian Pflug
On Oct25, 2011, at 18:47 , Sushant Sinha wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 18:05 +0200, Florian Pflug wrote: >> On Oct25, 2011, at 17:26 , Sushant Sinha wrote: >>> I am currently using the prefix search feature in text search. I find >>> that the prefix characters are treated the same as a normal lexe

Re: [HACKERS] lexemes in prefix search going through dictionary modifications

2011-10-25 Thread Sushant Sinha
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 18:05 +0200, Florian Pflug wrote: > On Oct25, 2011, at 17:26 , Sushant Sinha wrote: > > I am currently using the prefix search feature in text search. I find > > that the prefix characters are treated the same as a normal lexeme and > > passed through stemming and stopword dic

Re: [HACKERS] lexemes in prefix search going through dictionary modifications

2011-10-25 Thread Florian Pflug
On Oct25, 2011, at 17:26 , Sushant Sinha wrote: > I am currently using the prefix search feature in text search. I find > that the prefix characters are treated the same as a normal lexeme and > passed through stemming and stopword dictionaries. This seems like a bug > to me. Hm, I don't think so.