Re: multi terabyte fulltext searching

Are there any examples of dblink being used in commercial
environments.  I am curious to understand how it deals with node
failures and etc.

Benjamin

On Mar 21, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Benjamin Arai wrote:
>
>> Can't you implement something similar to google by aggregating
>> results for TSearch2 over many machines?
>
> tsearch2 doesn't use any global statistics, so, in principle, you
> should be able to run fts on several machines and combine them using
> dblink (contrib/dblink).
>
>>
>> Benjamin
>> On Mar 21, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Teodor Sigaev wrote:
>>
>>> I'm afraid that fulltext search on multiterabytes set of
>>> documents can not be implemented on any RDBMS, at least on single
>>> box. Specialized fulltext search engines (with exact matching and
>>> time to search about one second) has practical limit near 20
>>> millions of docs, cluster - near 100 millions. Bigger collections
>>> require engines like a google.
>>> --
>>> Teodor Sigaev                                   E-mail:
>>> teodor@sigaev.ru
>>>                                                   WWW: http://
>>> www.sigaev.ru/
>>
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>     Regards,
>         Oleg
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