Re: Simplifying Text Search

* Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> [071112 15:18]:
> Simon Riggs wrote:

> >Right now, Full Text Search SQL looks like complete gibberish and it
> >dissuades many people from using what is an awesome set of features. I
> >just want to add a little sugar to help people get started.

> Granted, @@ is a bit awkward until you get used to it. "x LIKE y" would
> read out better, but unfortunately that's already taken ;-).

Can LIKE be easily overloaded in the parser? So:
text LIKE text
works in it's current form, and
tsvector LIKE tsquery
also works like the @@? Or have I gotten all the ts* types all mixed up
again...

But it doesn't buy anything except avoiding the "@@" that people seem to not
grok easily, and it might actually cause more grief, because of people
confusing the 2 forms of LIKE.

a.

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