How to search?

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:21:40 -0800,
Mike <akiany@gmail.com> wrote:

I am new in this field and would appreciate it if someone points me to
the right direction.

I have a website with lots of users and each have lots of data in
multiple tables. I want to create a search box where a user can search
between all their data for the match. I want to search system to
contain multiple words and be forgiving. How do I do it? Do I have to
create a flat text of every record in my tables and then run the search

through them for every word entered? That doesn't sound right? It would

exhaust my database with a few users...

You probably want to look at tsearch2.

Thanks,
Mike