Re: [HACKERS] Re: Mysql 321 - Mysql 322 - msql

> I don't currently have any databases that could benefit from full-text
> indexes.  But I can think of applications where it'd be important,
> particularly after we get rid of the limit on tuple sizes so that it
> becomes reasonable to put fair-size chunks of text into database
> entries.  For example: would it be useful to put my email archive into
> a Postgres database, one message per tuple?  Maybe ... but if I can't
> glimpse it afterwards, forgetaboutit.
> 
> You could probably glue something like this together from existing
> spare parts, say by running a nightly cron job that dumps out the
> text fields of your database for indexing by Glimpse.  But it wouldn't
> be integrated into SQL --- you'd have to query the index separately
> outside of SQL, then use the results to drive a query to fetch the
> selected records.

We do have contrib/fulltextindex.

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