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From: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah@trade-india.com>
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Subject: Re: Comparing tsearch2 vectors.
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Achilleus Mantzios wrote:

>O kyrios Rajesh Kumar Mallah egrapse stis Jul 12, 2004 :
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>
>>Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
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>>    
>>
>>>O kyrios Rajesh Kumar Mallah egrapse stis Jul 12, 2004 :
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Dear Mantzios,
>>>>
>>>>I have to get set of banners from database in
>>>>response to a search term.  I want that the search term
>>>>be compared to the keyword corresponding to the
>>>>banners stored in database. current i am doing an
>>>>equality match but i woild like to do it after stemming
>>>>both the sides (serch term and  keywords).
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>You could transform your search terms so that there is the "&"
>>>separator between them. (& stands for "AND").
>>>E.g. "handicrafts exporter" becomes "handicrafts&exporter"
>>>And then
>>>select * from <your table> where idxfti @@ to_tsquery(<searchterms>);
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>But i do not want 'handicraft exporters of delhi' to pop out if i search
>>for 'handicrafts exporters' whereas
>>
>>SELECT to_tsvector('handycrafts exporters of delhi') @@ to_tsquery('handycraft&exporting');
>>
>>will be true.
>>    
>>
>
>Define what you want, and then read tsearch2 userguide.
>I'm sure you'll find your way :)
>  
>
The requirement is different than full text search.
I am not searching a word in a collection of words (text)
rather comparing two strings after all the words in those
strings are stemmed. Hope my requirement is clear now.


Regds
mallah.




>  
>
>>Regds
>>Mallah.
>>
>>
>>
>>    
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>>>where idxfti is your tsvector column.
>>>
>>>E.g.
>>># SELECT to_tsvector('handycrafts exporters') @@ to_tsquery('handycraft&exporting');
>>>?column?
>>>----------
>>>t
>>>(1 row)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>So that the banners for the adword say 'incense exporter' is
>>>>shown even if 'incenses exporter' or  'incense exporters' is
>>>>searched.
>>>>
>>>>I hope i am able to clarify.
>>>>
>>>>Regds
>>>>Mallah.
>>>>
>>>>Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>O kyrios Rajesh Kumar Mallah egrapse stis Jul 12, 2004 :
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>We want to compare strings after stemming. Can anyone
>>>>>>tell me what is the best method. I was thinking to compare
>>>>>>the tsvector ,but there is no operator for that.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>I'd tokenize each string and then apply lexize() to get the 
>>>>>equivalent stemified 
>>>>>word, but what exactly are you trying to accomplish?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>Regds
>>>>>>Mallah.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>tradein_clients=# SELECT to_tsvector('handicraft exporters');
>>>>>>+---------------------------+
>>>>>>|        to_tsvector        |
>>>>>>+---------------------------+
>>>>>>| 'export':2 'handicraft':1 |
>>>>>>+---------------------------+
>>>>>>(1 row)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Time: 710.315 ms
>>>>>>tradein_clients=#
>>>>>>tradein_clients=# SELECT to_tsvector('handicrafts exporter');
>>>>>>+---------------------------+
>>>>>>|        to_tsvector        |
>>>>>>+---------------------------+
>>>>>>| 'export':2 'handicraft':1 |
>>>>>>+---------------------------+
>>>>>>(1 row)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Time: 400.679 ms
>>>>>>tradein_clients=# SELECT to_tsvector('Hi there') = to_tsvector('Hi there');
>>>>>>ERROR:  operator does not exist: tsvector = tsvector
>>>>>>HINT:  No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You may 
>>>>>>need to add explicit type casts.
>>>>>>tradein_clients=#
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>> 
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>>>      
>>>
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regds
Mallah.

Rajesh Kumar Mallah
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