Re: syntax for reaching into records, specifically ts_stat results

ok, here is a function ( credits to Teodor )

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ts_stat(tsvector, OUT word text, OUT ndoc
integer, OUT nentry integer)
RETURNS SETOF record AS
$$    SELECT ts_stat('SELECT ' || quote_literal( $1::text ) || '::tsvector');
$$ LANGUAGE SQL RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT IMMUTABLE;

use it like
 select id, (ts_stat(fts)).* from apod where id=1;

Oleg


On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Oleg Bartunov wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Dan Chak wrote:
>
>> Oleg,
>> 
>> This syntax works fine until I also want to get the "sentence_id" column in 
>> there as well, so that I can differentiate one set of ts_stat results from 
>> another.  With the syntax where ts_stat is treated like a table, it isn't 
>> possible to run ts_stat separately on multiple tsvectors as I'm doing 
>> below.
>> 
>> Is there some generic record access syntax that I can use?
>
> write function
>
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>> 
>> On Dec 9, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>> 
>>> try select * from ts_stat(....)
>>> btw, performance of ts_stat() was greatly improved in 8.4.
>>> 
>>> Oleg
>>> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Dan Chak wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear Postgres Folk,
>>>> 
>>>> In working with tsvectors (added in 8.3), I've come to a place where my 
>>>> syntax-fu has failed me.  I've resorted to turning a result set of 
>>>> records into strings so that I can regexp out the record fields I need, 
>>>> rather than access them directly, as I'm sure it's possible to do with 
>>>> the right syntactic formulation.  Although my solution works, I'm sure 
>>>> it's much less efficient than it could be, and hope someone on the list 
>>>> can help do this the right way.
>>>> 
>>>> Basically, I would like to transpose a series of tsvectors (one per row) 
>>>> into columns.  E.g., as tsvects, I have this:
>>>> 
>>>> test=# select * from tsvects;
>>>> sentence_id |            tsvect
>>>> -------------+------------------------------
>>>>        1 | 'fox':3 'brown':2 'quick':1
>>>>        2 | 'lazi':1 'eleph':3 'green':2
>>>> 
>>>> Instead I want this:
>>>> 
>>>> sentence_id | word  | freq
>>>> -------------+-------+------
>>>>        1 | fox   | 1
>>>>        1 | brown | 1
>>>>        1 | quick | 1
>>>>        2 | lazi  | 1
>>>>        2 | eleph | 1
>>>>        2 | green | 1
>>>> 
>>>> I am able to generate this with the following view, but the problem is 
>>>> that to create it, I must first cast the ts_stat results to a string, and 
>>>> then regexp out the pertinent pieces:
>>>> 
>>>> create or replace view words as
>>>> select sentence_id,
>>>>    substring(stat from '^\\(([^,]+),') as word,
>>>>    substring(stat from ',([^,]+)\\)$') as freq
>>>> from (select sentence_id,
>>>>            ts_stat('select tsvect from tsvects where sentence_id = ' ||
>>>>               tsvects.sentence_id)::text as stat
>>>>       from tsvects
>>>>    ) as foo;
>>>> 
>>>> It seems like there should be a way to access fields in the records 
>>>> returned from ts_stat directly, but I can't figure out how.  Here's the 
>>>> result of the subquery:
>>>> 
>>>> test=# select sentence_id,
>>>>            ts_stat('select tsvect from tsvects where sentence_id = ' ||
>>>>               tsvects.sentence_id)::text as stat
>>>>       from tsvects;
>>>> sentence_id |    stat
>>>> -------------+-------------
>>>>        1 | (fox,1,1)
>>>>        1 | (brown,1,1)
>>>>        1 | (quick,1,1)
>>>>        2 | (lazi,1,1)
>>>>        2 | (eleph,1,1)
>>>>        2 | (green,1,1)
>>>> (6 rows)
>>>> 
>>>> If I try to get at the elements (which I believe are named 'word', 
>>>> 'ndoc', 'nentry'), I get a variety of syntax errors:
>>>> 
>>>> test=# select sentence_id,
>>>> test-#        stat['word'],
>>>> test-#        stat['nentry']
>>>> test-#   from (select sentence_id,
>>>> test(#                ts_stat('select tsvect from tsvects where 
>>>> sentence_id = ' ||
>>>> test(#                   tsvects.sentence_id) as stat
>>>> test(#           from tsvects
>>>> test(#        ) as foo;
>>>> ERROR:  cannot subscript type record because it is not an array
>>>> 
>>>> If I say stat.word (instead of subscripting), I get 'missing FROM-clause 
>>>> entry for table "stat"'.  If I say foo.stat.word, I get 'ERROR:  schema 
>>>> "foo" does not exist'.
>>>> 
>>>> Any ideas on how to get into these records with resorting to text 
>>>> parsing?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dan
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>         Oleg
>>> _____________________________________________________________
>>> Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru),
>>> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
>>> Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
>>> phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
>     Regards,
>         Oleg
> _____________________________________________________________
> Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru),
> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
> Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
> phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83
>
>
    Regards,        Oleg
_____________________________________________________________
Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru),
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83