Re: Full text search

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:37:58AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:40:53PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
>  > > I know absolutely nothing about text search and retrieval, so I'm a
>  > > long way from the right person to either write the project description
>  > > or mentor the project.
>  > > 
>  > > That said, I think at least a brief description of this project
>  > > already exists somewhere, because I remember wondering out loud to
>  > > someone whether Google would be happy about funding it.
>  > 
>  > The FTS3 (and now FTS4) extensions to sqlite look promising
>  > (<http://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html>), although I have never
>  > used them.  A lot of the code was contributed by people who
>  > work at Google.
> 
> This is a convincing reason to import sqlite, IMO.

I think that SQLite probably belongs in the base system, however, I
don't think that storing every document in an SQLite database is an
efficient way to create a full-text search. :-)

Dave

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