Re: BLOB & Searching

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:44:34PM -0700, jdwatson1@gmail.com wrote:
>> 1. How can I store the word doc's in the DB, would it be best to use a
>> BLOB data type?
>
> Use a bytea field.
>
>> 2. Does Postgres support full text searching of a word document once it
>
> Nope.

Not natively. It would however be possible to use one of the .doc libs
out there to read the binary document and run it through a parser and
feed that to Tsearch2.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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