Re: retrieving keys from a GIN index on a tsvector column in Postgres 9.1?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chris Esposito <chris(dot)esposito(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: retrieving keys from a GIN index on a tsvector column in Postgres 9.1?
Date: 2012-10-18 21:06:30
Message-ID: 5178.1350594390@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Chris Esposito <chris(dot)esposito(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I've got a collection of documents that I'd like to do some full text
> searching on in Postgres 9.1, so adding them as the contents of a tsvector
> and then creating a GIN index on this column seems straightforward enough.
> My understanding of the GIN index is that the keys used are (depedning on
> the text search configuration used) either the list of original words or
> their normalized lexemes from the collection of original documents.

If you're storing a tsvector column, it already has done all the text
processing involved --- I don't believe GIN is adding anything, it's
just indexing the elements of the tsvector.

regards, tom lane

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