On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Stephen Davies wrote:
Hmmmm!
I think I now understand the ts position better, thank you.
Part of my problem has been that I am used to the functionality of Open Text's
LCS (aka BASIS) product which handles text differently.
It includes the position (and context) information in the index and does
"remember" how the text was parsed so does not need to reparse to insert hit
navigation tags nor need pointers as to how to parse queries. (It also
supports phrase searching.)
Now that I have a better understanding of ts, I think I will be able to make
it do at least most of what I hoped for.
I'm wondering if it was not described in the text search documentation :)
Thank you again for your help with this.
Cheers,
Stephen Davies
On Friday 22 February 2008 20:45, Richard Huxton wrote:
Stephen Davies wrote:
Unfortunately, my link to the box with the test database is down due to
lack of maintenance by our local telco (Telstra) but I think that I also
missed the optional config arg to ts_headline.
The lack of link also means that I cannot confirm your findings but your
logic looks good.
Looks like ALTER DATABASE SET default_text_config='english' is what you
need.
It begs the question, however, as to why ts-headline needs to reparse the
raw text.
It needs to line up tsvector lexemes with actual characters in the text.
The tsvector is missing punctuation, any stopwords (the, it, a) as well
as being stemmed (if your dictionary does that).
Also, it's looking for a short span of words that provide the best
match. That might not be a complete match of course, and is different to
how you'd normally look to use a tsvector.
At least in my case, I am using a trigger to parse the combination of
Title and Abstract to a ts_vector field in the table row (as suggested in
12.2.2 and 12.4.3 in the doco) so that the ts_vector is already available
to ts_headline.
If ts_headline had the ability to use that pre-parsed ts_vector, my
problem would never have arisen - and the performance of ts_headline
would be improved.
Maybe. It would still have to parse the text to some degree though, just
to get the original words & punctuation into the headline.
Regards,
Oleg
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