[Koha-devel] marc_word and searching

[Paul POULAIN]

Joshua Ferraro a écrit :

>>>that we want to use for searches (we don't need all of them as you pointed
>>>out; for instance, we will never use 300 for a search).  So we have three
>>>basic tasks:
>>>      
>>>
>>another idea, that would be better maybe :
>>replace ' by _.
>>Thus, o'brian searches o_brian, that will be stored in the DB.
>>The only limit is that a search on brian won't be successful. Tell me if 
>>it's a problem.
>>
>>Otherwise, we could add a 'index also 1 letter words', but, imho, ONLY 
>>with the 'do not index this subfield feature'.
>>    
>>
>It seems to me like indexing on single-character words will lead to a more
>accurate search--though the marc_word table will be a bit bloated.  I suppose
>we should also think about other punctuation marks too--do we change them
>all to _ or do we leave them in the database?
>  
>
So... what do we decide here ? Joshua seems to prefer 1 letter indexing.
Is there anyone having an opinion on this topic ?

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Paul POULAIN
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