On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 08:22:23PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Sushant Sinha <sushant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think that dot should be considered by as a word delimiter because > > when dot is not followed by a space, most of the time it is an error > > in typing. Beside they are not many valid english words that have > > dot in between. > > It's not treating it as an English word, but as a host name. > > select ts_debug('english', 'Mr.J.Sai Deepak'); > ts_debug > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > (host,Host,Mr.J.Sai,{simple},simple,{mr.j.sai}) > (blank,"Space symbols"," ",{},,) > (asciiword,"Word, all > ASCII",Deepak,{english_stem},english_stem,{deepak}) > (3 rows) > > You could run it through a dictionary which would deal with host > tokens differently. Just be aware of what you'll be doing to > www.google.com if you run into it. > > I hope this helps. > > -Kevin >
In our uses for full text indexing, it is much more important to be able to find host name and URLs than to find mistyped names. My two cents. Cheers, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers