On 02/14/2017 07:35 AM, Thomas Nyberg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think it's easier to explain my question with example code:
> 
> ------------------------
> CREATE TABLE t ( s VARCHAR );
> CREATE TABLE
> 
> INSERT INTO t VALUES ('hello'), ('hello world');
> INSERT 0 2
> 
> SELECT * FROM t;
>       s
> -------------
>  hello
>  hello world
> (2 rows)
> 
> SELECT s, ts_rank(vector, query) AS rank
> FROM t, to_tsvector(s) vector, to_tsquery('hello') query
> WHERE query @@ vector;
>       s      |   rank
> -------------+-----------
>  hello       | 0.0607927
>  hello world | 0.0607927
> (2 rows)
> ------------------------
> 
> Here both 'hello' and 'hello world' are ranked equally highly when
> searching with 'hello'. What I'm wondering is, is there a way within
> postgres to have it match higher to just 'hello' than 'hello world'?
> I.e. something like it slightly down-weights extraneous terms? Of course
> in general I don't know the query or the field strings ahead of time.

Some digging around found this:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/textsearch-controls.html#TEXTSEARCH-RANKING

Setting a normalization of 1:

test=# SELECT s, ts_rank(vector, query, 1) AS rank
FROM t, to_tsvector(s) vector, to_tsquery('hello') query
WHERE query @@ vector; 
      s      |   rank    
-------------+-----------
 hello       | 0.0607927
 hello world | 0.0383559

> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
> 
> 


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.kla...@aklaver.com


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