Re: full text searching

"Mitch Vincent" <mitch(at)venux(dot)net> writes:

> Well, the search engine isn't the database, IMHO. The search "engine" is
> your application... The database will go get anything you tell it to, you
> just have to know how to tell it and make sure that your application tells
> it in the correct way.
>
> Teaching an application or database the English language is going to be a
> hell of a project, good luck!

Well, I don't want to write another search engine. What I would like to see
is a way to integrate with different third party products. It would be cool
with Lucene or some other free search engine as an optional add on
for PostgreSQL.

> Anyway. Moral of the story.. I'd like to see native PostgreSQL full text
> indexing before we go adding on to the contrib'd trigger/function
> implementation...

Well, I think any attempt at a "complete" full text indexing implementation
in the database itself is futile. Find a way to move this out of the
database and integrate with another product.

I've been using a variant of the FTI system in an application, but this is
far from sufficient when it comes to matching. Speed is OK, but the quality
of the results could have been a lot better.

Regards,

Gunnar