On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Oren Teich <o...@heroku.com> wrote: > Because you don't have access to the DB directly, many of the built in > search solutions aren't available on Heroku. Using built in FTS or things > like tsearch will break taps for example, and are not supported. A few > people have reports of getting them running, but it's not production > quality. If you want to use search on Heroku, websolr is really the way to > go.
Don't know if this is production-ready, but Aaron Patterson released a gem some time ago called 'Texticle' which lets you do full-text search using Postgres on Heroku. Full blog post (with instructions on setting up) is here: http://tenderlovemaking.com/2009/10/17/full-text-search-on-heroku/ HTH. Cheers, Arun > > Oren > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Mike <mikel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I noticed that the documentation recommends using Solr for search: >> http://docs.heroku.com/full-text-search >> >> However, Postgres has a built-in full text search capability that is >> not discussed at all. I was wondering what the rationale is for the >> recommendation of Solr? >> >> Would the performance offered by a Solr approach be significantly >> greater or more scalable than using Postgres' built-in search? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Heroku" group. >> To post to this group, send email to her...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<heroku%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku" group. > To post to this group, send email to her...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<heroku%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. > -- It's better to be a pirate than join the Navy - Steve Jobs http://mclov.in -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to her...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
