Re: Another bug in tsearch?

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

> Hi Oleg & Teodor,
>
> This behaviour is causing problems in my search engine:
>
> australia=# select 'banana/pineapple'::mquery_txt;
> mquery_txt
> --------------------
> 'banana/pineapple'
> (1 row)
>
> In our case the forward slash symbol should really be treated as a word
> break. Are there any cases where it shouldn't be? I can maybe only think
> of 3/4, etc.

I wouldn't say it's a bug. It's a feature and called 'filename or path' :)
Probably we should interpret it as 3 lexems
'banana/pineapple', 'banana', 'pineapple' or 2 last lexems ?
Then you'll have a lot if noise for texts like mailing lists.
You could adapt parser to suit you needs, anyway.

>
> Chris
>
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Regards,
Oleg
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