| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | "Eric B(dot)Ridge" <ebr(at)tcdi(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Postgres + Xapian (was Re: fulltext searching via a custom index type ) |
| Date: | 2004-01-03 16:12:05 |
| Message-ID: | 20040103161205.GA10977@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:49:23PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >I think one way of attacking the problem would be using the existing
> >nbtree by allowing it to store the five btrees.
>
> Why not write it using the GiST interface - that is after all the entire
> point of GiST...
Well, the project is to adapt Postgres as a Xapian backend ... I think
it is much more straightforward to use the BTrees that Xapian already
uses, than to use GiST. Plus, GiST already has an interface for
fulltext indexing, doesn't it?
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"La victoria es para quien se atreve a estar solo"
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