Re: Efficient Searching of Large Text Fields

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 15:30 -0500, Aaron Bono wrote:
> In another post on a different topic, Rod Taylor said the following:
> 
> "A\tcat in   the\nhat" might be stored as ARRAY['A', 'cat', 'in', 'the', 'hat'].
> 
> This got me thinking.  I have a discussion forum for gamers and want
> to provide searching capabilities so the user can type in a phrase
> like "magical bow" and get all posts, sorted by relevance that contain
> these words.
> 
> My questions are:
> 1. Will storing the posts in an ARRAY help improve performance of
> these searches?  If so, by how much?

It won't help at all. Fast partial matches against arrays is nearly
impossible. You might take a look at tsearch though.

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