Re: Work Around for Oracle Context Indexes?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: David Griffiths <dgriffiths(at)boats(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Work Around for Oracle Context Indexes?
Date: 2002-02-18 14:29:45
Message-ID: 200202181429.g1IETjP12439@candle.pha.pa.us
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David Griffiths wrote:
> We're looking to replace Oracle with PostgresQL 7.2 sometime soon.
>
> Both of our websites run Oracle, and one uses context indexes. These are
> indexes on a table that contains text. A context index will create an index
> on that column (minus irrelevant words like and/or/but/if/etc), and allow
> searches to be done for a specific word.
>
> Anyone offer a work-around to this?

Sure, see /contrib/fulltextindex.

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