On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:14:21AM +0100, Andreas Kraftl wrote: > Am Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:44:17 +0100 schrieb Andreas Kraftl: > > How can I create a full text index over b? > > thanks for the answers. But nothing matches my problem. I'm not sure what's wrong with Oleg's suggestion--he's the guy who wrote most of the code so his suggestions should be reasonable! I'm just learning about this stuff myself, so it may be somewhat sub-optimal. That said, I got things working when doing the following: CREATE TABLE test ( lang TEXT, text TEXT ); INSERT INTO test VALUES ('german', 'hallo welt'), ('english', 'hello world'); CREATE INDEX idx ON test USING gin(tsvector_concat( to_tsvector('german', CASE lang WHEN 'german' THEN text ELSE '' END), to_tsvector('english', CASE lang WHEN 'english' THEN text ELSE '' END))); "text" as a column name gets a bit confusing to read, but I'm trying to follow your names. Also my version of PG didn't seem to know that the '||' operator knows how to concat tsvectors, so I had to spell out tsvector_concat in full. Querying is a bit awkward, but works: SELECT * FROM test WHERE tsvector_concat( to_tsvector('english', CASE lang WHEN 'english' THEN text ELSE '' END), to_tsvector('german', CASE lang WHEN 'german' THEN text ELSE '' END)) @@ to_tsquery('english', 'hello'); Putting most of the above into a query would work, as would having PG automatically maintaining a column of type TSVECTOR. > I read the manual again and decide me for an other way. > I change my table that it looks like: > > lang | text > ---------------------- > german | hallo welt > english | hello world What types do these columns have? if "lang" is of type REGCONFIG all works for me: CREATE TABLE test ( lang REGCONFIG, text TEXT ); INSERT INTO test VALUES ('german', 'hallo welt'), ('english', 'hello world'); CREATE INDEX idx ON test USING gin(to_tsvector(lang, text)); SELECT * FROM test WHERE to_tsvector(lang, text) @@ to_tsquery('english', 'hello'); This all seems much easier than having "lang" as a TEXT column. > Now I have no idea. My experience with databases and postgresql are too > less to decide if this is a bug, or myself is the bug ;-). I think the awkward thing is that text/strings are visually indistin- guishable from arbitrary literals in SQL. The 'english' that's going into the to_tsquery() call above is actually of type REGCONFIG, but it looks like a string literal. I think that could be why you were getting confused before. Hope that all makes sense and helps a bit! Sam -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general