Re: turning a tsvector without position in a weighted tsvector

From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
To: Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail(at)webthatworks(dot)it>
Cc: postgresql Forums <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: turning a tsvector without position in a weighted tsvector
Date: 2010-02-08 20:01:45
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.1002082300490.16860@sn.sai.msu.ru
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Ivan,

what's wrong with:

postgres=# select 'abc:1'::tsvector;
tsvector
----------
'abc':1

postgres=# select setweight('abc:1'::tsvector,'a');
setweight
-----------
'abc':1A

or just use to_tsvector() instead of casting?

Oleg
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:

> If I convert a string to a tsvector just casting (::tsvector) I
> obtain a vector without positions.
> tsvectors without positions don't have weights too.
>
> I haven't found a way to turn a vector without weight/pos, into a
> vector with weight/pos.
>
> Is there a way to apply weight/add positions to tsvectors without
> positions?
> Is there any use-case?
>
>

Regards,
Oleg
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