Tsearch2 README File Example: Overview (Continued)
- Stop words are not contained in the tsvector column type.
Words like 'as', 'a', 'while', and 'is' are thrown out by the
tsearch parser.
- The default tsearch parser performs algorithimic word
stemming. Words like 'query' and 'queries' are both stemmed as
'queri'. Searches on either word will match the other.
- The tsvector type stores the location of a word stem.
'queri':10 is the 10th word in line 44, the first result
returned by the query.
- Boolean searches are supported. In 'database | query', the
'|' operator means 'OR'. Other supported operators are '&' for 'AND' and
'!' for 'NOT'.
- The to_tsquery() function parses words into word stems. An
optional parameter is the parser configuration to use. In
this example, the 'default' parser is used.
- The special operator '@@' is used to test for matches
between a tsvector data type and a tsquery.
- The headline function surrounds matching words by start and
stop delimiters. The default delimiters are '<b>' and '</b>'.
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