Re: gsoc, oprrest function for text search take 2

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Jan Urbański <j(dot)urbanski(at)students(dot)mimuw(dot)edu(dot)pl>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Postgres - Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: gsoc, oprrest function for text search take 2
Date: 2008-08-14 21:33:04
Message-ID: 20080814213304.GI4232@alvh.no-ip.org
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Jan Urbański wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

>> Sounds like a plan. In (2), it's even better to detoast the values
>> lazily. For a typical one-word tsquery, the binary search will only
>> look at a small portion of the elements.
>
> Hm, how can I do that? Toast is still a bit black magic to me... Do you
> mean I should stick to having Datums in TextFreq?

Store both the Datum and the text *. If the latter is NULL, then grab
the datum, detoast and store the result in the text *. Next time you
need to look at it, it's already detoasted.

I don't know the code so I have no idea if this is applicable.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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