I think you misunderstood my question. let me give clear idea about what i need.
I am using PostgreSQL fulltext search (tsearch2) feature to implement searching on database. From readings i came to know that we can give weights to different fields in database something like this:
setweight(to_tsvector(title),'A')
Where 'A' is weight given to field title. i can give weights to other fields in the same way. Where the weights 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' are in will be in the following order A > B > C > D according to defalut fulltext search configuration.
We can rank the search results using ts_rank function something like this,
ts_rank(tsv_title,ts_query('this is my search text'))
But, i want to rank these reults not only based on just title, but also using other fields like summary etc.
Is there a way around to do this?
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hoe do you define "importance"?On 12/10/2009 14:16, Gaini Rajeshwar wrote:
> Hi,
> is there a way to rank the search results based on multiple fields in
> postgreSQL?
> For example,
> i have *title*, *abstract*, *summary*, *body* as fields/columns in my
> database. When user searches on *title*, i want to rank the results based on
> *title* field as well as *summary* field, where importance(summary) >
> importance(title). But the results should be exactly matching the terms in
> "title" rather than "title" OR "summary"
>
You can order the results alphabetically/numerically on as many columns
as you like - for example,
select ....
where title = ....
order by title, summary
will order the results on title first, then summary... though you
probably know this and I'm misunderstanding what you need.
A little more detail will help.
Ray.
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