Hey,
thanks for your answer.

I think the problem is that my hunspell dictionary is not working
correctly with compound words. I've mailed to
[email protected] and we are working on my problem.

I will inform you when I've got it working.

Jens

2011/2/7 Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>:
>> I've installed a fresh MediaWiki using Mediawiki 1.16.2
>> and PostgreSQL 8.4.7.
> ...
>> extract from the Main Page: "Therapieempfehlungen" (german)
>> If I search "Therapieempfehlungen" I got as result the Main Page. But
>> if I search "Therapie" MediaWiki cannot found this phrase
> ...
>
> Postgres' full text system uses word stemming rather than exact matches.
> The first thing you'd have to do is ensure that you are using 'german' as
> the language, so Postgres knows how to split the words. The second problem
> is that even "therapie" won't work, as it's not part of
> "Therapieempfehlungen": the German root is "therapieempfehl". It's extremely
> impractical and expensive to match against every single substring of a
> word, so full text systems use stemming and other tricks. Here's what it
> looks like under the hood:
>
> # select to_tsquery('german', 'Therapieempfehlungen');
>    to_tsquery
> -------------------
>  'therapieempfehl'
>
>  # select to_tsquery('german', 'Chemotherapie');
>   to_tsquery
> ----------------
>  'chemotherapi'
>
>  # select to_tsquery('english', 'Therapieempfehlungen');
>       to_tsquery
> ------------------------
>  'therapieempfehlungen'
>
>  # select to_tsquery('english', 'puppeteer');
>  to_tsquery
> ------------
>  'puppet'
> (1 row)
>
> As far as making sure your tsearch is using german, you want to
> change your default config to German for the MediaWiki user,
> which is usually mwuser. This can be done like so:
>
> ALTER USER mwuser SET default_text_search_config = 'german';
>
> --
> Greg Sabino Mullane [email protected]
> End Point Corporation
> PGP Key: 0x14964AC8
>

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