I think contrib/tsearch2
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/
is what you need.
Oleg
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, chester c young wrote:
I'm considering implementing a search box on my review web site
http://lesculturelles.net and am looking for a simple way to match
entered words against several columns on related tables:
show.show_name, story.title, person.firtname, person.lastname, etc.
one solution would be a view:
create view search_v as select
'show'::name as tab_nm,
show_id as tab_pk,
'Show Name' as description,
show_name as search
from show
union select
'story'::name,
story_id,
'Story Title',
title
from story
union ...
your query would be
select * from search_v where '$string' ilike search
this would return a list the user could use to drill down further.
many ways to skin this cat.
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