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. ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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