From owner-freebsd-database Fri Nov 27 09:16:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08857 for freebsd-database-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:16:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat1001.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.191.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08851 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:16:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA24026; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:13:43 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:13:43 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Tom Lane cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: Mysql 321 - Mysql 322 - msql In-Reply-To: <1747.912185625@sss.pgh.pa.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Tom Lane wrote: > The Hermit Hacker writes: > > On 27 Nov 1998, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote: > >> See http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ for a powerful inverted indexing > >> engine and various related software. > > > Just curious, but other then specialized applications like > > Glimpse, does anyone actually support/do this? > > I dearly love Glimpse. (Sample things I use it for: rooting through > nearly 10 years worth of archived email; finding all references to a > particular name in the Postgres sources, almost instantly; ditto for the > even larger Ptolemy sources; looking for files that I can't remember > where I put ... it's great. And aren't the Postgres mailing list > archive indexes Glimpse-driven?) Nope, I use ht/Dig for it... > A seamless integration would make Glimpse indexes be a new type of > index associated with a new match operator, something like > create index index1 on table using glimpse (text_field); > select * from table where glimpse(text_field, 'pattern'); > I have no idea how hard that would be... Anyone? This one I'd love to see... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message