From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>,
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Subject: Re: Mailing list search engine: surprising missing results?
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Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 08:27:41AM +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
>> The reason is that the 'moore' in 'boyer-moore' is stemmed, since it
>> is at the end of the word, while the 'moore' in 'Boyer-Moore-Horspool'
>> isn't:

> Wow, he showed me this problem earlier but I never suspected it was
> stemming issue because I never considered proper nowns could be
> stem-adjusted, but it is obvious they can.

I wonder if we should change that so that components of a compound
word are consistently stemmed the same way.

			regards, tom lane