On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:11:01 +0530 Gaini Rajeshwar <raja.rajeshwar2006@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? if you concatenate your fields with different weight in the *same* ts_vector, ranking will take into account your weight... Someone more knowledgeable than me chose how to use weight to give a reasonable ranking. Of course if you've field a, b and c and you want to search in a and b only, you'll have to concatenate just a and b. If you need different assortment in fields groups... you'll have to add some extra redundancy if you plan to store precomputed ts_vectors for each record. If you need to search "separately" in different fields (eg. title ~ 'gino' AND summary ~ 'pino') you just need to weight the input query as well inputquery := setweight(cfg, inputtitle, 'A', '&'); inputquery := inputquery && setweight(cfg, inputsummary, 'B', '&'); ... -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general