Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In regular text fields containing words, your problem is solvable with full > text indexing (FTI). Unfortunately, FTI is not designed for arbitrary > non-language strings. It could be adapted, but would require a lot of > hacking.
I'm not sure why you say that FTI isn't a usable solution. As long as the gene symbols are separated by whitespace or some other non-letters (eg, "foo mif bar" not "foomifbar"), I'd think FTI would work. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])