Can this fit? select plainto_tsquery('english', 'the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy fox'); plainto_tsquery ----------------------------------------------------- 'quick' & 'brown' & 'fox' & 'jump' & 'lazi' & 'fox' -Sushant. On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 18:21 +0200, Massa, Harald Armin wrote: > I want to access the single words in a text. Better yet: the relevant > words (i.e. without stop words) in a text. > > > to_tsvector or casting gets me the lexems as a tsvector: > > > select to_tsvector('the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy fox') > ''brown':3 'fox':4,9 'jump':5 'lazi':8 'quick':2' > > > And I would like to access "brown", "fox", "jump", "lazi" and "quick" > as single values that I insert into another table. > > > But: no luck with any tries to convert to records, arrays or similiar. > > > Next step, the lesser-known-fts-functions: > > > select ts_parse('default','the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy > fox') > > > (1,the) > (12," ") > (1,quick) > [...] > (1,fox) > > > is a set-returning-function, giving me 17 records of type > pseudo-record. Stopwords still in there, so what. But: No chance of > accessing the second field in that record. > > > Of course, there is allways: > > > select substr(what::text,position(',' in > what::text)+1,char_length(what::text)-position(',' in what::text)-1) > from > ( > select ts_parse('default','the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy > fox') as what > )x > > > but, comeon: having a two-field-record, casting it to one field of > text, searching for the "," that separates the two fields and then > split the one-field into two fields by substring? > > > So, is there a better way to access > > > a) the lexems of a tsvector > b) the (unnamed) fields of a set-of-record-returning function > > > ? > Harald > > > -- > Harald Armin Massa www.2ndQuadrant.de > PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support > > 2ndQuadrant Deutschland GmbH > GF: Harald Armin Massa > Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 736399 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general