To answer my own question - my synonym dictionary was not be applied to '1st' because '1st' is a numword, not an asciiword, and my synonym dictionary was not mapped to numword. To map a dictionary token class: ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION english ALTER MAPPING FOR numword WITH my_synonym_dictionary, simple; The dictionary must already have been created with CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY Rich On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Richard Greenwood <richard.greenwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oleg, > > Thank you. I am sure that you have identified my problem. > > \dF+ english (output below) lists my dictionary which is named > 'rwg_synonym' before numword so I would have thought that my > dictionary would have normalized '1st' to '1' before the numword > dictionary was reached. Maybe this question belongs in a new thread, > but I do thank you for helping me to look in the correct place. > > Best regards, > Rich > > fremontwy=# \dF+ english > Text search configuration "pg_catalog.english" > Parser: "pg_catalog.default" > Token | Dictionaries > -----------------+-------------------------- > asciihword | english_stem > asciiword | rwg_synonym,english_stem > email | simple > file | simple > float | simple > host | simple > hword | english_stem > hword_asciipart | english_stem > hword_numpart | simple > hword_part | english_stem > int | simple > numhword | simple > numword | simple > sfloat | simple > uint | simple > url | simple > url_path | simple > version | simple > word | english_stem > > > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Richard, >> >> you should check your mapping - '1st' belongs to 'numword' and may be >> processed >> in a different way than 'first' or '1'. >> >> Oleg >> On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Richard Greenwood wrote: >> >>> I am working with street address data in which 'first st' has been >>> entered as '1 st' and so on. So I have created a text search >>> dictionary with entries: >>> first 1 >>> 1st 1 >>> And initially it seems to be working properly: >>> >>> SELECT ts_lexize('rwg_synonym','first'); >>> ts_lexize >>> ----------- >>> {1} >>> >>> >>> SELECT ts_lexize('rwg_synonym','1st'); >>> ts_lexize >>> ----------- >>> {1} >>> >>> But my queries on '1st' are not returning the expected results: >>> >>> SELECT count(*) FROM parcel_attrib WHERE txtsrch @@ to_tsquery('1'); >>> count >>> ------- >>> 403 <- this is what I want >>> >>> SELECT count(*) FROM parcel_attrib WHERE txtsrch @@ to_tsquery('first'); >>> count >>> ------- >>> 403 <- this is also good >>> >>> SELECT count(*) FROM parcel_attrib WHERE txtsrch @@ to_tsquery('1st'); >>> count >>> ------- >>> 4 <- this is not good. There are 4 records that do have '1st', >>> but why am I not getting 403 records? >>> >>> Thanks for reading, >>> Rich >>> >>> >> >> Regards, >> Oleg >> _____________________________________________________________ >> Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru), >> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia >> Internet: oleg@xxxxxxxxxx, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ >> phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83 >> > > > > -- > Richard Greenwood > richard.greenwood@xxxxxxxxx > www.greenwoodmap.com > -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenwood@xxxxxxxxx www.greenwoodmap.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general