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Yes, it's normal for ispell dictionary, think about morphological dictionary.

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Tim van der Linden <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Good morning/afternoon all
>
> I am currently writing a few articles about PostgreSQL's full text capabilities and have a question about the Ispell dictionary which I cannot seem to find an answer to. It is probably a very simple issue, so forgive my ignorance.
>
> In one article I am explaining about dictionaries and I have setup a sample configuration which maps most token categories to only use a Ispell dictionary (timusan_ispell) which has a default configuration:
>
> CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY timusan_ispell (
>         TEMPLATE = ispell,
>         DictFile = en_us,
>         AffFile = en_us,
>         StopWords = english
> );
>
> When I run a simple query like "SELECT to_tsvector('timusan-ispell','smiling')" I get back the following tsvector:
>
> 'smile':1 'smiling':1
>
> As you can see I get two lexemes with the same pointer.
> The question here is: why does this happen?
>
> Is it normal behavior for the Ispell dictionary to emit multiple lexemes for a single token? And if so, is this efficient? I mean, why could it not simply save one lexeme 'smile' which (same as the snowball dictionary) would match 'smiling' as well if later matched with the accompanying tsquery?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
>
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