On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:40:33 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I missed it. Thanks. Nearly perfect. Now I've to understand what > > a {} is. > > An array with a null element? an empty array? an array > > containing ''? > > Hmm ... it appears that ts_lexize is returning a one-dimensional > array of no elements, whereas '{}'::text[] returns a > zero-dimensional array; as does array[]::text[] so you can't > easily get around it :-( Maybe in 8.4. I'm already thankful this toy is making such wonders. > We probably ought to clean this up... > > In the meantime it looks like you could check for > "array_upper(lexemes,1) > 0". My version as posted before was the >=1 variant. This is what I was trying to obtain a weighted version of plainto_tsquery with parametrised operator: I think I'm wasting some cpu cycles when ts_debug try to fill the lexemes array that I'm not using. So maybe there should be more finer access to the functions to help build up tsquery. The ts_parse is missing the information about what tokens should be discarded. create or replace function setweight(configuration regconfig, queryin text, weight char, op char ,out query tsquery) as $$ declare tsdebug record; querystring text; begin querystring:=''; for tsdebug in select token from ts_debug(configuration, queryin) where array_upper(lexemes,1)>0 loop querystring:=querystring || coalesce(tsdebug.token || coalesce(':' || weight, '') || ' ', ''); end loop; querystring:=regexp_replace(querystring, ' (.)', op || '\\1', 'g'); query:=to_tsquery(configuration, querystring); return; end; $$ language plpgsql immutable; -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general