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II.B.9 Install Full Text Search using Tsearch2

By Dave Bauer, Joel Aufrecht and Malte Sussdorff with help from Tsearch V2 Introduction by Andrew J. Kopciuch

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If you want full text search, and you are running PostgreSQL, install this module to support FTS. Do this step after you have installed both PostgreSQL and AOLserver. You will need the tseach2 module form PostgreSQL contrib. This is included with the PostgreSQL full source distribution. It is also available with the PostgreSQL contrib package provided by most distribution packages. On debian it is called postgresql-contrib.

  1. For PostgreSQL 7.3 or 7.4, download the http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/regprocedure_7.4.patch.gz tsearch2 patch to correctly restore from a pg_dump backup. If you installed tsearch2 from a package, you can use the http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/regprocedure_update.sql regprocedure script to update the database after tsearch2 is installed into it. TODO link to section decribing how to fix an existing tsearch2 database with this patch.

  2. As of May 9, 2004 there is a source patch available for tsearch2. The patch provides changes to the pg_ts_ configuration tables to allow for easy dump and restore of a database containing tsearch2. The patch is available here : [http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/regprocedure_7.4.patch.gz]

    To apply this patch, download the mentioned file and place it in your postgreSQL source tree ($PGSQL_SRC). This patch makes the backup and restore procedures very simple. 

                [postgres pgsql]$ cd /tmp
            [postgres tmp]$ wget http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/regprocedure_7.4.patch.gz
            [postgres pgsql]$ cd /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.4.5/
            [postgres postgresql-7.4.5] gunzip /tmp/regprocedure_7.4.patch.gz
            [postgres postgresql-7.4.5] patch -b -p1 < regprocedure_7.4.patch

    If you have a working version of tsearch2 in your database, you do not need to re-install the tsearch2 module. Just apply the patch and run make. This patch only affects the tsearch2.sql file. You can run the SQL script found : [right here] This script will make the modifications found in the patch, and update the fields from the existing data. From this point on, you can dump and restore the database in a normal fashion. Without this patch, you must follow the instructions later in this document for backup and restore.

    This patch is only needed for tsearch2 in PostgreSQL versions 7.3.x and 7.4.x. The patch has been applied to the sources for 8.0.

  3. Install Tsearch2. This is a PostgreSQL module that the tsearch2-driver OpenACS package requires. These instructions assume you are using the latest point release of PostgreSQL 7.4.5. 

    [root root]# su - postgres
[postgres pgsql]$ cd /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.4.5/contrib/tsearch2/
[postgres tsearch2]$ make
[postgres tsearch2]$ make install
mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib
mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/doc/contrib
(2 lines omitted)
/bin/sh ../../config/install-sh -c -m 755 libtsearch.so.0.0 /usr/local/pgsql/lib/tsearch.so
[postgres tsearch]$ exit
logout

[root root]#
su - postgres
cd /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.4.5/contrib/tsearch2
make
make install
exit

  1. Click Admin on the top of the default home page. If prompted, log in with the account and password you entered during install.

  2. Click on the Install software link.

  3. Click on the Install new service link.

  4. Click on the Install link next to Tsearch2 Driver. If you have installed tsearch2 into your PostgreSQL database, the installer will automatically enable tsearch in your OpenACS database instance.

  5. Restart the service. 

    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$ svc -t /service/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$

  6. Wait a minute, then browse back to the home page.

  7. Click on Admin on the top of the screen.

  8. Click on Main Site Administration in the "Subsite Administration" section.

  9. Click on Site Map in the "Advanced Features" section.

  10. Mount the Search interface in the site map.

    1. Click the new sub folder link on the Main Site line.

    2. Type search and click New.

    3. Click the new application link on the search line.

    4. Type search where it says untitled, choose search from the drop-down list, and click New.

    5. Click the Parameters link next to the Search package istance.

    6. Type tsearch2-driver where it says openfts-driver in the FtsEngineDriver parameter.

  11. Restart the service. 

    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$ svc -t /service/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$

  12. Wait a minute, then click on Main Site at the top of the page.

Enabling Full Text Search in packages at the moment is not trivial. It involves a couple of steps, which I will illustrate taking lars-blogger as an example package

  1. Install the package.

    1. Click Admin on the top of the default home page. If prompted, log in with the account and password you entered during install.

    2. Click on the Install software link.

    3. Click on the Install new application link.

    4. Click on the Install link next to Weblogger.

    5. Install all required packages as well (always say okay until you shall restart the server)

  2. Load the service contracts datamodell and enable the service contract 

    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$ cd packages/lars-blogger/sql/postgresql
[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME postgresql]$ psql $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME -f lars-blogger-sc-create.sql

    Note: Usually this script is called package_name-sc-create.sql

  3. Restart the service. 

    [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME postgresql]$ svc -t /service/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME

                [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME postgresl]$

If you are lucky, Full Text Search is enabled now, if not consult http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=154759. This link also contains some hints on how to make sure it is enabled.