On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, b wragg wrote:
Hi all, I'm running the following query to match a supplied text string to an actual place name which is recorded in a table with extra info like coordinates, etc. SELECT ts_rank_cd(textsearchable_index_col , query, 32 /* rank/(rank+1) */) AS rank,* FROM gazetteer, to_tsquery('Gunbower|Island|Vic') query WHERE query @@ textsearchable_index_col order by rank desc, concise_ga desc, auda_alloc desc LIMIT 10 When I run this I get the following top two results: Pos Rank Name State 1 0.23769 Gunbower Island Primary School Vic 2 0.23769 Gunbower Island Vic The textsearchable_index_col for each of these looks like this: 'vic':6 '9999':5 'gunbow':1 'island':2 'school':4 'primari':3 'victoria':7 'vic':4 '9999':3 'gunbow':1 'island':2 'victoria':5 I'm new to this, but I can't figure out why the "Gunbower Island Primary School" is getting top place. How do I get the query to improve the ranking so that an exact match (like "Gunbower|Island|Vic") gets a higher position?
you can read documentation and use document length normalization flag, or write your own ranking function.
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