Re: tsearch2 and a database with texts in different languages?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: tsearch2 and a database with texts in different languages?
Date: 2005-06-11 14:30:48
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hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> hi
> i guess this should be a simple question:
> is it possible to use tsearch2 in a database where i have texts in
> different languages?
> i.e. it is a database of technical texts written in at least 4
> different languages (english, polish, russian and german).

http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/

Yes. I believe you just need the right dictionaries. The site lists them.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> probably more languages will be comming.
> the question is - is it possible to setup tsearch2 indices to they
> will allow me to search efficiently over this database.
> i dont need stemmers (which might be a big point in this case), but
> having them would be nice.
>
> depesz
>
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