[htdig-dev] Phrase search capability in 3.1.6

[Ravi Starzl]

Greets all,   I have been working with htDig for almost a year now, and see a dramatic difference in the performance between version 3.1.x and 3.2.x. I am currently forced to use 3.2.x, because phrase searching is a necessity for the projects that I work on, however, the performance handicaps of 3.2.x (indexing times and htmerge instability) make using it very time consuming for large-scale indexes (over 50,000 documents).  How difficult or how far away is the addition of phrase searching to the stable release? That is the key feature for several people I have talked to that would be the biggest improvement in the stable release. I've worked somewhat-extensively with other information retrieval systems - would it be easier to use the phrase search code of another public system as a template for implementing phrase capability?   I would love to contribute to the development effort if I could get some specific direction on what would need changing in htDig to enable phrases.   Ravi Starzl ViWire