dict_xsyn

Extensions

dict_xsyn

dict_xsyn : text search dictionary template for extended synonym processing

Overview

ID	Extension	Package	Version	Category	License	Language
4900	dict_xsyn	dict_xsyn	`1.0`	FUNC	PostgreSQL	C

Attribute	Has Binary	Has Library	Need Load	Has DDL	Relocatable	Trusted
--s-d--	No	Yes	No	Yes	no	no

Relationships
See Also	dict_int unaccent pg_similarity smlar pg_summarize pg_search pgroonga pg_bigm

Packages

PG18	PG17	PG16	PG15	PG14
1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0

This is a built-in contrib extension ship with the PostgreSQL kernel

Install

Create this extension with:

CREATE EXTENSION dict_xsyn;

Usage

dict_xsyn: extended synonym dictionary for text search

Provides an extended synonym dictionary template for text search, replacing words with groups of synonyms.

CREATE EXTENSION dict_xsyn;

Configuration Parameters

Parameter	Description	Default
`matchorig`	Accept original word	`true`
`matchsynonyms`	Accept synonyms as input	`false`
`keeporig`	Include original in output	`true`
`keepsynonyms`	Include synonyms in output	`true`
`rules`	Base name of synonym file in `$SHAREDIR/tsearch_data/` (`.rules` extension)	–

Rules File Format

word syn1 syn2 syn3

Lines starting with # are comments.

Examples

-- Configure the dictionary
ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY xsyn (RULES='my_rules', KEEPORIG=true);

-- Test the dictionary
SELECT ts_lexize('xsyn', 'word');
-- {word,syn1,syn2,syn3}

-- Match synonyms as input too
ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY xsyn (RULES='my_rules', MATCHSYNONYMS=true);
SELECT ts_lexize('xsyn', 'syn1');
-- {syn1,syn2,syn3}

-- Use in a text search configuration
ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION english
  ALTER MAPPING FOR word, asciiword WITH xsyn, english_stem;

Last updated on 2026-03-24

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