Qunfeng,
Thanks for the feedback, I surely appreciate it.

I asked the pattern match question, because I am using a hosting service that hosts MySQL 3.23. Since I have a need to search on terms less than 3 characters long and I can not re-compile, I was looking for another solution. I thought that I might be able to use pattern matching as a substitute, but it sounds like performance might be an issue with large tables.

If you have any other recommendations on how I could approach my problem, I would surely appreciate them.


At 07:35 AM 12/31/02 -0800, Qunfeng Dong wrote:
It can perform pattern match on text field. The only
draw back is the speed (especially if you are using
%pattern% to do the search) when you tables are
getting huge, since there is no index to help.

Qunfeng

--- Frank Peavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to use pattern matching as a substitute
> to fulltext search on
> MySQL 3.23.
> Is this a good alternative?
>
> Are there any limits, like not being able to perform
> a pattern match on a
> 'text' field, etc., that I need to be aware of?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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