Re: simple web search

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:01:22AM -0800, chester c young wrote:
> > I'm considering implementing a search box on my review web site
> > http://lesculturelles.net and am looking for a simple way to match
> > entered words against several columns on related tables:
> > show.show_name, story.title, person.firtname, person.lastname, etc.
>
> one solution would be a view:
>
> create view search_v as select
> 'show'::name as tab_nm,
> show_id as tab_pk,
> 'Show Name' as description,
> show_name as search
> from show
> union select
> 'story'::name,
> story_id,
> 'Story Title',
> title
> from story
> union ...
>
> your query would be
> select * from search_v where '$string' ilike search
>
> this would return a list the user could use to drill down further.

Thanks, this looks promising. The union and view ideas are indeed
inspiring.

What is that ::name cast for?