Commit Graph

17 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
e6dbcb72fa Extend GIN to support partial-match searches, and extend tsquery to support
prefix matching using this facility.

Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov
2008-05-16 16:31:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
9b5c8d45f6 Push index operator lossiness determination down to GIST/GIN opclass
"consistent" functions, and remove pg_amop.opreqcheck, as per recent
discussion.  The main immediate benefit of this is that we no longer need
8.3's ugly hack of requiring @@@ rather than @@ to test weight-using tsquery
searches on GIN indexes.  In future it should be possible to optimize some
other queries better than is done now, by detecting at runtime whether the
index match is exact or not.

Tom Lane, after an idea of Heikki's, and with some help from Teodor.
2008-04-14 17:05:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
fb8b38e4bf Add a couple of notes pointing out that GIN index build time is very
sensitive to maintenance_work_mem (something I just learned the hard
way).
2007-11-16 03:23:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
b40c0a4bb0 Clean up some stray references to tsearch2. 2007-11-13 23:36:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4ab7ea5ace Remove tabs from SGML files to help tag alingment and improve
detection of tabs are added in the future.
2007-02-16 03:50:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8b4ff8b6a1 Wording cleanup for error messages. Also change can't -> cannot.
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:

        may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."

        can - ability, "I can lift that log."

        might - possibility, "It might rain today."

Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice.  Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
2007-02-01 19:10:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a134ee3379 Update documentation on may/can/might:
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:

        may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."

        can - ability, "I can lift that log."

        might - possibility, "It might rain today."

Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice.  Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".

Also update two error messages mentioned in the documenation to match.
2007-01-31 20:56:20 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
d4c6da1527 Allow GIN's extractQuery method to signal that nothing can satisfy the query.
In this case extractQuery should returns -1 as nentries. This changes
prototype of extractQuery method to use int32* instead of uint32* for
nentries argument.
Based on that gincostestimate may see two corner cases: nothing will be found
or seqscan should be used.

Per proposal at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg01581.php

PS tsearch_core patch should be sightly modified to support changes, but I'm
waiting a verdict about reviewing of tsearch_core patch.
2007-01-31 15:09:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
08fa6a6851 Editorial improvements for GIN documentation. 2006-12-01 23:46:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f1e3e3238d Fix typos 2006-11-30 20:50:44 +00:00
Neil Conway
28568e585f Spelling and related minor fixes for the GIN docs. 2006-11-23 05:58:01 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
bcbb402e31 Improve wordings by David Fuhry <dfuhry@cs.kent.edu> 2006-09-18 12:11:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
c2314b9ece Fix missing markup. 2006-09-14 21:15:07 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
e25c3e84b6 Fix SGML markup 2006-09-14 13:40:28 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
0ca9907ce4 GIN documentation and slightly improving GiST docs.
Thanks to  Christopher Kings-Lynne <chris.kingslynne@gmail.com> for
initial version and Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> for inspection
2006-09-14 11:16:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
10964008c9 Remove GIN documentation
Christopher Kings-Lynne
2006-09-05 03:09:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
19dd2fbf7e Add GIN documentation.
Christopher Kings-Lynne
2006-09-04 20:10:53 +00:00