Re: Full Text Search - i18n

From: Andrew <archa(at)pacific(dot)net(dot)au>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Full Text Search - i18n
Date: 2008-06-25 06:29:11
Message-ID: 4861E5B7.1020001@pacific.net.au
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Re-reading the documentation, and I have the answer. If adding a
tsvector column, then for per row selection, I should also add a second
column of type regconfig to specify the language that rows contents are in.

Cheers,

Andy

Andrew wrote:
> Apologies if this question has been previously covered, but I was not
> able to find something similar in any of the mailing list archives.
>
> With full text search, if you need to support a table where the
> content of individual tuples/rows may be in different languages with
> the language of the content known, and the content of any individual
> row does _not_ contain a mixture of languages, what is the best way to
> design for this?
>
> Would you create a different GIN/GiST index of the tsvector for each
> language? Or if using columns to store the tsvector, would you have a
> different column per language, or the one column with the associated
> trigger using the appropriate language when building the tsvector for
> that row?
>
> Are there better alternatives than what I have listed?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy

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