Re: [GENERAL] Text Databases

Well, I've found isearch to be very useful for massive fulltext indexes..
Perhaps postgres could borrow it's methods..

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Nicholas Humfrey wrote:

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> On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> >it sounds like you're looking at the wrong tool for a particular job.
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> I am trying to get the best of both worlds. A good relational database
> system as well as being able to do text searches in mutiple fields.
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> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >See the 'fulltextindex' directory under the contrib directory.
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> How fast is PostgreSQL at searching for text. Should I, as Dustin Sallings
> wrote look for a different relational database system ? I like PostgreSQL's
> features especially free source code, so I can run it on different
> platforms (Sparc,PPC,i486 etc.) Is there a more suitable free system
> available ?
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> Nicholas
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