Re: Are there only 4 weights in PostgreSQL fulltext search?

From: Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org mailing list" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Are there only 4 weights in PostgreSQL fulltext search?
Date: 2009-10-13 05:30:15
Message-ID: B7ACCE1C-B7D7-47DC-8B13-E8B0D81376F9@thebuild.com
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On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:59 PM, Gaini Rajeshwar wrote:
> From the readings and documentation, i understood that there are 4
> weights A,B,C,D (1.0, 0.4, 0.2, 0.1 are the defalut values, which
> can be changed) to rank the search results.
> But using just these 4 weights is too less to rank the search
> results, as i have many fields to use for ranking.

You are correct that there are only four weights. Each weight,
however, can be assigned to any number of fields; you are not limited
to just four fields (if I understand your comment correctly).

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