Re: Mailing list search engine: surprising missing results?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, James Addison <jay(at)jp-hosting(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Mailing list search engine: surprising missing results?
Date: 2022-01-24 20:47:29
Message-ID: 2150096.1643057249@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 08:27:41AM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
>> The reason is that the 'moore' in 'boyer-moore' is stemmed, since it
>> is at the end of the word, while the 'moore' in 'Boyer-Moore-Horspool'
>> isn't:

> Wow, he showed me this problem earlier but I never suspected it was
> stemming issue because I never considered proper nowns could be
> stem-adjusted, but it is obvious they can.

I wonder if we should change that so that components of a compound
word are consistently stemmed the same way.

regards, tom lane

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