On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:56:37AM +0000, Enrico Zini wrote: > So I was thinking: how if I set up the machinery to generate and > maintain a Xapian database, alongside UDD, with information about > Debian packages, that is accessible by the same machines that UDD is > accessible from? That would allow to write applications that take > advantage of both.
Thanks for the nice idea. But still, I'm dreaming of a bit more of an integration. One of the nice things of UDD is its consistent and relatively well-known interface: SQL queries. Would it be possible, by the means of some Postgres extension written in $PROG_LANG, to query a local Xapian database *from SQL*? There are many full text searches implementations for Postgres, I'm wondering whether we can use an external one based on Xapian. I leave the answer to our beloved Postgres gurus :-) /me just to throwing another idea in the bag. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'รจ sempre /oo\ All one has to do is hit the right uno zaino -- A.Bergonzoni \__/ keys at the right time -- J.S.Bach
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