Re: Let's play bash the search engine

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Thomas H. wrote:

>>> http://search.postgresql.org/search?q=HAVING
>>> says "An error occured while searching."
>>
>> I bet HAVING is a stop-word, so actual message is 'NOTICE: query contains
>> only stopword(s) or doesn't contain lexeme(s), ignored'
>>
>> I think we should add to pg_dict dictionary line
>>
>> having having
>
> just a though... wouldn't it make sense for a documentation search index to
> *not* have stop words at all? potentially every word that is being searched
> for could be contained in a query example, code piece etc and thus seems
> important to me... for example keywords like AND, OR etc.

Ah, I forgot about them. Now, with GiN we could definitely try
stop-words free search !

>
> - thomas
>

Regards,
Oleg
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