Re: [pgsql-advocacy] New PostgreSQL search resource

On Saturday 17 January 2004 04:48, Dave Page wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy@postgresql.org]
> > Sent: 17 January 2004 03:52
> > To: Robert Treat
> > Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Joshua D. Drake
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] [pgsql-advocacy] New PostgreSQL
> > search resource
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Robert Treat wrote:
> > > Ok, this is now the second site that has come to be in the last few
> > > days that is using FTS and Tsearch for site search, and providing
> > > something that seems a lot better than the search available on the
> > > main website... what is stopping us from implementing this
> >
> > and dumping
> >
> > > mnogosearch?  at least for the main site if not for the archives?
> >
> > actually, Dave is working on an improved search ... but, Oleg
> > just announced a crawler using tsearch that I'm going to take
> > a look at implementing as well ...
>
> That was going to be my next experiment should the current one not work
> out!
>
> The only other potential solution I've found so far is ASPSeek
> (http://www.aspseek.org/) which claims to be efficient for massive
> searches, but that's MySQL/Oracle only, so unless we can write a
> PostgreSQL interface for it that's out. (mind you, I took a quick look
> and it looks like all the db stuff is abstracted out into a single file
> for each db so that might not be too difficult).
>

ho ha! i've been looking at that too, and i've talked with someone on irc that
already has it running on postgresql too.  check out his site:
http://search.oztralis.com.au/Top.htm, I'm sure he'd be willing to help out
if you want.

Robert Treat
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