| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
| Cc: | jdwatson1(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BLOB & Searching |
| Date: | 2006-06-14 01:56:51 |
| Message-ID: | 448F6CE3.6040302@commandprompt.com |
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:44:34PM -0700, jdwatson1(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
>> 1. How can I store the word doc's in the DB, would it be best to use a
>> BLOB data type?
>
> Use a bytea field.
>
>> 2. Does Postgres support full text searching of a word document once it
>
> Nope.
Not natively. It would however be possible to use one of the .doc libs
out there to read the binary document and run it through a parser and
feed that to Tsearch2.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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