I wrote up a response to my question: https://www.mslinn.com/blog/2021/02/11/installing-apache-solr.html
Comments are invited. Mike On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 11:56:36 AM UTC-5 Michael Slinn wrote: > Pardon me if I am asking a dumb question, but the docs just state what to > do in order to configure search engines without ever saying why such a > thing might be needed. > > Why not use the database for retrieving product-related information? Does > django-oscar sometimes/usually need to search documents for some reason? If > so, what type of documents? > > My use case is just one product with several parameters that is custom > -made for each order. I do not expect to need a search engine for this, or > is there something I need to learn about? > > For which scenarios might a search engine provide value? > > Thanks, > Mike > -- https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar http://django-oscar.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "django-oscar" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-oscar+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-oscar/98f713bd-dbd8-4e4e-a813-4ded53259f93n%40googlegroups.com.
