Could anyone advise as to how to avoid this error? I'll describe the table
and query below.
The database contains a table 'tinytm_segments', which has two text columns,
'source_text' and 'target_text'. These are used to store sentences and their
translations. The language of the text is specified with typical
two-character identifiers ('en', 'fr' etc.) stored in two further columns,
'source_lang_code' and 'target_lang_code'. Translation in either direction
can be stored, so for a given row, source_text may contain English and
target_text French (with the corresponding values in source_lang_code and
target_lang_code), or the other way round.
The application needs to search for (say) French sentences containing a
given substring and retrieve any English translation found (or whatever
other language combination and direction). To perform better with large
datasets, full text indices are defined, such as these:
-- Index English text
CREATE INDEX tu_target_text_en_idx ON tinytm_segments USING
gin(to_tsvector('english', target_text)) where target_lang_code = 'en';
CREATE INDEX tu_source_text_en_idx ON tinytm_segments USING
gin(to_tsvector('english', source_text)) where source_lang_code = 'en';
-- Index French text
CREATE INDEX tu_source_text_fr_idx ON tinytm_segments USING
gin(to_tsvector('french', source_text)) where source_lang_code = 'fr';
CREATE INDEX tu_target_text_fr_idx ON tinytm_segments USING
gin(to_tsvector('french', target_text)) where target_lang_code = 'fr';
To retrieve (say) sentences that have been translated from French, where the
French contains a given substring, a query like this can then be issued:
SELECT * FROM tinytm_segments WHERE
source_lang_code='fr' AND
to_tsvector('french', source_text) @@ plainto_tsquery('french', 'rien du
tout') AND lower(source_text) LIKE '%rien du tout%'
However, that will return sentences translated into whatever language. The
error occurs when trying to retrieve only sentences translated from French
into English, using a query like this:
SELECT * FROM tinytm_segments WHERE
source_lang_code='fr' AND
to_tsvector('french', source_text) @@ plainto_tsquery('french', 'rien du
tout') AND lower(source_text) LIKE '%rien du tout%'
AND target_lang_code='en'
Why would adding "target_lang_code='en'" cause this error?
Environment: PostgreSQL 8.4 on Windows (installed with one-click installer),
default text search config used.
Thanks in advance for any information.
Kevin.
