RE: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-28 Thread Don Baccus
At 10:52 AM 11/28/00 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> > b) Check out MSSQL 7's capabilities and weep. >> >> BTW, have you studied MSSQL enough to tell me if it has a >> separate/standalone >> (as a process) fti engine or just another index type. >It is standalone - separate process, data is sto

RE: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-28 Thread Magnus Hagander
> > b) Check out MSSQL 7's capabilities and weep. > > BTW, have you studied MSSQL enough to tell me if it has a > separate/standalone > (as a process) fti engine or just another index type. It is standalone - separate process, data is stored in separate files (not in db). In SQL Server 7.0, yo

Re: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-28 Thread Hannu Krosing
john huttley wrote: > > > I believe that it is appropriate for contrib/ because it is a good demo > > of FTI-like capabilities. But nothing more, yet. For at least a couple > > of reasons: > > > > 1) It generates the "index" as a table, not a PostgreSQL index or > > index-like thing. > > > > 2) I

Re: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-27 Thread john huttley
> I believe that it is appropriate for contrib/ because it is a good demo > of FTI-like capabilities. But nothing more, yet. For at least a couple > of reasons: > > 1) It generates the "index" as a table, not a PostgreSQL index or > index-like thing. > > 2) It has a hardcoded list of non-indexed

Re: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-27 Thread john huttley
> > OK, can someone collect suggestions, add the code, and integrate it for > > 7.1? > > too late in cycle ... How about first thing for 7.2 then? While it lies in limbo, its never going to get the attention it deserves. Regards

Re: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > I modified the FTI trigger for my own use a while ago (indexes whole > words, eliminates duplicate a few other things) -- I'm not sure if it would > do anyone any good but you're welcome to it. To whom should I send it? Is full-word optional

Re: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-27 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> > > Maybe asking 'Why isn't the contrib full-text-indexer not in the main > > > tree?' would be more productive on that front. > > Well, yes. Why isn't it? I believe that it is appropriate for contrib/ because it is a good demo of FTI-like capabilities. But nothing more, yet. For at least a cou

Re: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-27 Thread Don Baccus
At 11:06 PM 11/27/00 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: >On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> OK, can someone collect suggestions, add the code, and integrate it for >> 7.1? > >too late in cycle ... Yes... - Don Baccus, Portland OR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nature photos, on-line guides, Pa

Re: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-27 Thread Mitch Vincent
Hacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Don Baccus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "John Huttley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 7:06 PM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Full text Index

Re: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-27 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > >Well, yes. Why isn't it? > > > > > >Full text indexing should be just as much a feature as any other key feature in > > >PG. > > >With the advent of unlimited file and record lengths in 7.1, this would be a good > > >time to > > >include it. > > > >

Re: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
> >Well, yes. Why isn't it? > > > >Full text indexing should be just as much a feature as any other key feature in > >PG. > >With the advent of unlimited file and record lengths in 7.1, this would be a good > >time to > >include it. > > > >FTI is particularly useful in the context of web content e

Re: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-27 Thread Lamar Owen
John Huttley wrote: > > Maybe asking 'Why isn't the contrib full-text-indexer not in the main > > tree?' would be more productive on that front. > Well, yes. Why isn't it? I'm hoping to see the answer to that one myself, as that is outside my scope currently. I just RPMize things... Although,

Re: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-27 Thread Don Baccus
At 02:51 PM 11/28/00 +1300, John Huttley wrote: >> >> Maybe asking 'Why isn't the contrib full-text-indexer not in the main >> tree?' would be more productive on that front. > >Well, yes. Why isn't it? > >Full text indexing should be just as much a feature as any other key feature in >PG. >With th