Re: [GENERAL] Text Databases

From: Dustin Sallings <dustin(at)spy(dot)net>
To: Nicholas Humfrey <nhumfrey(at)poboxes(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, njh1(at)st-andrews(dot)ac(dot)uk
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Text Databases
Date: 1998-12-02 23:20:08
Message-ID: Pine.SGI.3.95.981202151932.2837A-100000@bleu.west.spy.net
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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Nicholas Humfrey wrote:

# How good is PostgreSQL at hosting nearly pure text based databases ? Is
# it possible to search mutilple cols for the same keyword ? How well
# would it handle 40,000+ rows with say 15 columns each with about 20
# words in each cell ?

Get a book on relational databases, it sounds like you're looking
at the wrong tool for a particular job.

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