For full text indexing, which is better, tsearch2 or fulltextindex

Hi all,
Which one is better (performance/easier to use),
tsearch2 or fulltextindex?
there is an example how to use fulltextindex in the
techdocs, but I checked the contrib/fulltextindex
package, there is a WARNING that fulltextindex is
much slower than tsearch2. but tsearch2 seems
complex to use, and I can not find a good example.
Which one I should use? Any suggestions?

thanks and Regards,
William

----- Original Message -----
From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 5:33 pm
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] why index scan not working
when using 'like'?

> Tom Lane kirjutas T, 25.11.2003 kell 23:29:
> > Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> > > In regular text fields containing words, your
problem is
> solvable with full
> > > text indexing (FTI). Unfortunately, FTI is
not designed for
> arbitrary
> > > non-language strings. It could be adapted,
but would require a
> lot of
> > > hacking.
> >
> > I'm not sure why you say that FTI isn't a usable
solution. As
> long as
> > the gene symbols are separated by whitespace or
some other non-
> letters> (eg, "foo mif bar" not "foomifbar"), I'd
think FTI would
> work.
> If he wants to search on arbitrary substring, he
could change
> tokeniserin FTI to produce trigrams, so that
"foomifbar" would be
> indexed as if
> it were text "foo oom omi mif ifb fba bar" and
search for things like
> %mifb% should first do a FTI search for "mif" AND
"ifb" and then
> simpleLIKE %mifb% to weed out something like "mififb".
>
> There are ways to use trigrams for 1 and 2 letter
matches as well.
>
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