Re: ts_count

On 06/04/2011 04:51 PM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> Well, there are several functions available around tsearch2. so I suggest
> somebody to collect all of them and create one extension - ts_addon.
> For example, these are what I remember:
> 1. tsvector2array
> 2. noccurences(tsvector, tsquery) - like your ts_count
> 3. nmatches(tsvector, tsquery) - # of matched lexems in query
> Of course, we need to think about better names for functions, since
> ts_count is a bit ambiguous.
>
>

Getting agreed names was one reason for posting. I don't know why these 
need to be an extension. I think they are of sufficiently general 
interest (and sufficiently lightweight) that we could just build them in.

cheers

andrew