Re: full text indexing

Interesting...I've used that very idea (with some variations)
to implement the keyword search in the Genome channel. See
the "Keyword Search" in http://compbio.ornl.gov/channel/

cheers,
Morey Parang
ORNL

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:33:31PM -0400, Bill Barnes wrote:
> There was an article in the Nov '95 Dr. Dobb's Journal about a Canadian phone
> company that did a full text index on a gazillion phone records and retrieved
> them quickly enough to run an inquiry operation.
> It was an interesting departure in building indices in that it created a
> directory for a text instance, such as a phone number, word, street number,
> etc, then attached the record number/s where found.
> Couldn't retrieve the article (it's on a $99 CD) but found the program
> listings and have attached the file.  I've never used it the idea was
> intriguing and thought I would someday put it to use.
>
> Good Luck
> Bill
>
> >===== Original Message From "Poul L. Christiansen" <poulc@cs.auc.dk> =====
> >Hi
> >
> >In my PostgreSQL database I have a lot of newspaper articles (size:
> >100mb now, growing beyond 1gb within few months).
> >I wan't to use full text indexing so that users can search the articles
> >with a keyword and have the results in less than one second.
> >
> >How do I accomplish that?
> >
> >Does PostgreSQL have this feature?
> >
> >Which 3rd party indexing tools are available that easily interoperate
> >with PostgreSQL?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Poul L. Christiansen
> >Dynamic Paper