Re: text search synonym dictionary anomaly with numbers

Oleg,

Thank you. I am sure that you have identified my problem.

\dF+ english (output below) lists my dictionary which is named
'rwg_synonym' before numword so I would have thought that my
dictionary would have normalized '1st' to '1' before the numword
dictionary was reached. Maybe this question belongs in a new thread,
but I do thank you for helping me to look in the correct place.

Best regards,
Rich

fremontwy=# \dF+ english
Text search configuration "pg_catalog.english"
Parser: "pg_catalog.default"
Token | Dictionaries
-----------------+--------------------------
asciihword | english_stem
asciiword | rwg_synonym,english_stem
email | simple
file | simple
float | simple
host | simple
hword | english_stem
hword_asciipart | english_stem
hword_numpart | simple
hword_part | english_stem
int | simple
numhword | simple
numword | simple
sfloat | simple
uint | simple
url | simple
url_path | simple
version | simple
word | english_stem

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> wrote:
> Richard,
>
> you should check your mapping - '1st' belongs to 'numword' and may be
> processed
> in a different way than 'first' or '1'.
>
> Oleg
> On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Richard Greenwood wrote:
>
>> I am working with street address data in which 'first st' has been
>> entered as '1 st' and so on. So I have created a text search
>> dictionary with entries:
>>    first  1
>>    1st  1
>> And initially it seems to be working properly:
>>
>> SELECT ts_lexize('rwg_synonym','first');
>> ts_lexize
>> -----------
>> {1}
>>
>>
>> SELECT ts_lexize('rwg_synonym','1st');
>> ts_lexize
>> -----------
>> {1}
>>
>> But my queries on '1st' are not returning the expected results:
>>
>> SELECT count(*) FROM parcel_attrib WHERE txtsrch @@ to_tsquery('1');
>> count
>> -------
>>  403  <- this is what I want
>>
>> SELECT count(*) FROM parcel_attrib WHERE txtsrch @@ to_tsquery('first');
>> count
>> -------
>>  403  <- this is also good
>>
>> SELECT count(*) FROM parcel_attrib WHERE txtsrch @@ to_tsquery('1st');
>> count
>> -------
>>    4  <- this is not good. There are 4 records that do have '1st',
>> but why am I not getting 403 records?
>>
>> Thanks for reading,
>> Rich
>>
>>
>
>        Regards,
>                Oleg
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