Re: Postgres Search

2010-02-10 Thread Mike
ku. I've taken a look at Texticle, and it's actually quite a direct and simple layering of Rails on top of Postgres search. Oren, how mature is the Websolr framework? I have looked at Websolr before, and it's not even out of private beta yet, and Heroku's own integration with

Re: Postgres Search

2010-02-09 Thread Arun Thampi
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Oren Teich 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

Re: Postgres Search

2010-02-09 Thread Matthew A. Brown
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 01:21, Mike 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 >

Re: Postgres Search

2010-02-09 Thread Oren Teich
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

Postgres Search

2010-02-09 Thread Mike
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 offere