Re: n-gram search function

From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: n-gram search function
Date: 2007-02-17 07:19:08
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0702171016430.400@sn.sai.msu.ru
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3-gram is implemented as a contrib/pg_trgm. It currently uses GiST index,
but may be enhanced with the GiN.

Oleg

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is anybody working on implementing n-gram search functionality for
> text type data? tsearch2 is great for long text but it's not
> appropreate for short (10-100 bytes) text data. What I want to achieve
> is a fast partial match search using indexes, i.e. foo ~ 'bar' or foo
> LIKE '%bar%' type matching.
> --
> Tatsuo Ishii
> SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
>
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Regards,
Oleg
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