On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 06:07:08PM -0500, san man wrote:
> Thanks for the replies.
> David, I would have normalized it to 2 or more tables, but the number of
> bar-delimited are not fixed and as new data are added the maximum number of
> these values may change. Also, the problem with like I think is that
> matching is not strict and thus might give spurious hits.
The fact that it's not fixed is irrelevant. just add table:
create table synonyms (
word text,
synonym text,
primary key (synonymi, word)
);
and you're fine. you can have as many synonyms per word as you want.
depesz
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