Re: general purpose full text indexing

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:06:12 +0200, Avishai Weissberg <ovesh1@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to find a suitable FTI component.
>
> I am aware of tsearch2, but as far as I understand it doesn't really suit my
> purposes. I want to be able to run a search on a huge TEXT column, where the the
> column's content is made of words (each 'word' is an email address) seperated by
> white-spaces and commas. The search should also support wild-chars. Lexemes are
> not needed, as the 'words' are not in any language.
>

You may want to look at the pg_tgrm contrib module.  It is a simpler
"similarity" matcher.

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