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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:39:21 +1000
From: Terence Kearns <terencek@isd.canberra.edu.au>
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Cc: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah@trade-india.com>
Subject: Re: relevance
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Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 8:21 am, Terence Kearns wrote:
> 
>>>>select id from tablename where message like '%sql%';
>>>>
>>>>If there any way to determine exactly how many times 'sql' is matched in
>>>>that search in each particular row, and then sort by the most matches,
>>>>or am I going to have to write a script to do the sorting for me?
>>
>>You could probably write a function in postgres (say, "matchcount()")
>>which returns the match count (possibly using perl and a regex).
> 
> 
> 
> Why reinvent the wheel when tsearch already does the job perfectly 
> and is PostgreSQL compaitable.
> 

Tsearch2 looks like it would be very useful but it's a lot of work to 
implement IMHO. At least it will probably (assumption) be a lot more 
efficient for massive amounts of data.

Remember the original question was regarding how to list results in 
order of how many hits were returned for each matched record.


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