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Hello,
In the FTS/Limitations part of the documentation, it says :
"Another example — the PostgreSQL mailing list archives contained 910,989
unique words with 57,491,343 lexemes in 461,020 messages."
How could the number of lexemes be greater than unique words ?
Thank you
Julien
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 13:58 PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>
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The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/textsearch-limitations.html
Description:Hello,
In the FTS/Limitations part of the documentation, it says :
"Another example — the PostgreSQL mailing list archives contained 910,989
unique words with 57,491,343 lexemes in 461,020 messages."How could the number of lexemes be greater than unique words ?
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/textsearch-parsers.html
Note the part with the hyphenated word example.
David J.
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Thank you David for your response, it makes sense now.
Julien
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Le 29 oct. 2023 à 22:02, David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> a écrit :
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 13:58 PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org <mailto:noreply@postgresql.org>> wrote:
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/textsearch-limitations.html <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/textsearch-limitations.html>
Description:Hello,
In the FTS/Limitations part of the documentation, it says :
"Another example — the PostgreSQL mailing list archives contained 910,989
unique words with 57,491,343 lexemes in 461,020 messages."How could the number of lexemes be greater than unique words ?
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/textsearch-parsers.html <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/textsearch-parsers.html>
Note the part with the hyphenated word example.
David J.