Re: tsearch2: plainto_tsquery() with OR?

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Tom Lane wrote:

> Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> writes:
>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> ... behavior that people want is "here's some words, get me a weighted
>>> result", and if the weighting improves from time to time that's OK.
>>> We need to provide that API too.
>
>> I think I understand. It's called non-exact (approximate) matching,
>
> Right, exactly. I don't claim that we have a perfect solution for
> approximate matching; we don't. But I think we should provide an
> API function that is defined to do approximate matching, with the
> understanding that the details of its behavior will change (for the
> better hopefully) from release to release. The first version might
> not be very good, but we can improve it.

Aha, never thought you'd interested in something non-exact :)
What'd be a name of such function ?

Regards,
Oleg
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