tsearch2 dictionary that indexes substrings?

From: Tilmann Singer <tils-pgsql(at)tils(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: tsearch2 dictionary that indexes substrings?
Date: 2007-04-19 17:17:04
Message-ID: 20070419171704.GE21437@tils.net
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Hi,

In this http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=pgsql-hackers&a=2006-10&t=2475028
thread Teodor Sigaev describes a way to make tsearch2 index substrings
of words:

> Brain storm method:
>
> Develop a dictionary which returns all substring for lexeme, for
> example for word foobar it will be 'foobar fooba foob foo fo oobar
> ooba oob oo obar oba ob bar ba ar'

Did anyone do that already?

If I understand it correctly such a dictionary would require to write
a custom C component - is that correct? Or could I get away with
writing a plpgsql function that does the above and hooking that
somehow into the tsearch2 config?

thanks, Til

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