Xapian discuss - Jul 2009 - Indexing and searching on a custom data type

Hello,

I'm working with Xapian (combined to acts_as_xapian on ruby on rails)
and Postgresql. I implemented a custom data type on postgresql. I would
like to index a table using that custom type as a term with xapian and
being able to process searches and sorting with that term. I think I
will have to create a new matcher or something like that. Is it possible
to do that ? And after doing that, should I make changes on ruby binding
too ? Or maybe there is a simpler way to achieve that ?

Thanks a lot,
Thomas C.

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 11:08:12AM +0200, Thomas Chambon wrote:
> I'm working with Xapian (combined to acts_as_xapian on ruby on rails)
> and Postgresql. I implemented a custom data type on postgresql. I would
> like to index a table using that custom type as a term with xapian and
> being able to process searches and sorting with that term.
I think you should just be able to add (some suitable representation
of it) as a term, and probably also as a document value (for
sorting). Without knowing more (such as what the custom data type is,
and how you expect to search on it) I can't recommend anything more
detailed.

J

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