On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:42:53PM -0400, p...@slatech.com wrote: > i am currently populating the textsearch column with the following > command: > > UPDATE > products > SET > textsearch=setweight(to_tsvector('english', description), 'A') || > setweight(to_tsvector('english', part_number, 'B') > WHERE > product_list_id=3 > > > Is there a way I can join products.vendor_id with vendors.id and get the > vendor.name in the textsearch column as well?
Yup, you can either do a join inside the UPDATE, or do a subquery. Here it's probably easiest to do a correlated subquery: UPDATE products p SET textsearch=nullif('', coalesce(setweight(to_tsvector('english', p.description), 'A'),'') || coalesce(setweight(to_tsvector('english', p.part_number), 'B'),'') || coalesce(setweight(to_tsvector('english', ( SELECT v.name FROM vendors v WHERE v.id = p.vendor_id)), 'A'),'')) WHERE p.product_list_id=3; I've put the calls to coalesce in so that if you happen to have any fields missing you'll still get a useful text search column. I'd also be tempted to remove the "to_tsvector" call from the part_number, as I doubt it really is an english bit of text. You can probably just use it as a tsvector literal, probably quoting it first, maybe something like: coalesce(setweight(quote_literal(p.part_number)::tsvector,'B'),'') -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general