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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:33:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
Cc:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, scrappy@hub.org, (Satoshi Asami) <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Subject:   Re: [PORTS] Pgaccess doesn't run on -current anymore, Update
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980330123315.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <l03020904b1459832d1c5@[194.32.164.2]>

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On 30-Mar-98 Bob Bishop wrote:
> At 7:19 pm +0100 30/3/98, Simon Shapiro wrote:
>>On 30-Mar-98 Bob Bishop wrote:
>>>...free-text search too.
>>
>>Yup.  This is in the head-scratching stage still.  I was thinking of
>>either
>>glimpse or maybe simply extracting the blob and applying regex to it.
>>Comments?
> 
> Slooow. The best you can say is that they both (IIRC about glimpse) scale
> linearly. You really need something dictionary-based.

Somebody smart may want to build a new Postgres data type that does exactly
that;  Grab a text array, parse into words, sort into a dictionary, etc.
Sounds like fun project.  Should not take all year either.

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Sincerely Yours, 

Simon Shapiro
Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG                      Voice:   503.799.2313

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