On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 11:29 -0500, Madison Kelly wrote: > I am looking at writing a search engine of sorts for my database. I > have only ever written very simple search engines before which amounted > to not much more that the query string being used with ILIKE on a pile > of columns. This was pretty rudimentary and didn't offer anything like > relevance sorting and such (I'd sort by result name, age or whatnot).
Look at Tsearch2: http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/ It has a lot of features for searching, and can make use of powerful indexes to return search results very quickly. As someone already mentioned, it also has ranking features. Regards, Jeff Davis ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
