Re: Speaking of Indexing... (Text indexing)

From: "Mitch Vincent" <mitch(at)venux(dot)net>
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Subject: Re: Speaking of Indexing... (Text indexing)
Date: 2001-04-11 15:33:06
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> Hmm. I'm pretty sure that a single index on the entire contents of a
> resume *as a single field* is close to useless. And an index on an 8k
> piece is also useless. Presumably you really want an index covering each
> significant word of each resume, in which case you would not run into
> the 4k limit (or 2k limit? it is documented somewhere) on the size of an
> *index* field (which is still a limitation on PostgreSQL built with the
> standard 8k block size. Of course, you can build with a larger block
> size).

Just an FYI..

I asked the other day and someone (Tom?) told me it was about 2k..

-Mitch

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