Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] Pgaccess doesn't run on -current anymore, Update (fwd)

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> Someone is/was talking about using PostgreSQL for the backend for this?
> Basically, making the mailing list archives searchable...
>
> We don't have free-text searching, I don't believe, but anyone have an
> idea on what would be involved in having it?

Talk to Maarten Boekhold, M.Boekhold@et.tudelft.nl.  I just asked him
about this because we suggested the CLUSTER change, and I wanted to get
new performance numbers.  I also asked him for a copy for contrib.

I am going to add him to the TODO contrib list.  I think he has
contributed patches in the past, but is not on the list.

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:50:48 +0100
> From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
> Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, scrappy@hub.org,
>     asami@FreeBSD.ORG, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
> Subject: Re: [PORTS] Pgaccess doesn't run on -current anymore, Update
>
> At 10:57 pm +0100 29/3/98, Simon Shapiro wrote:
> >..
> >We have been playing with the idea of normalizing the archive into an
> >RDBMS.  [etc]
>
> Great, but to be useful you need free-text search too.
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