Re: PostgreSQL search engine (Perl)

What kind of hardware resources do you have it sitting on?  CPUs, memory,
disks?

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Anders Nielsen wrote:

> The problem with in-database search-engines are that they're usually tagged
> on as a add-on feature and doesn't recieve the concentrated programming
> effort that is required to create a high-performance full-text indexing
> solution.
>
> I'd be interested in comparing performance stats with people who use
> OpenFTS, as I have a 8.5 gig fulltext Lucene index (including the indexed
> text) and I am more than happy with the response times I'm seeing.
>
> regards,
> Anders Nielsen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Bartunov [mailto:oleg@sai.msu.su]
> Sent: 31. maj 2002 13:05
> To: Anders Nielsen
> Cc: 'Kaare Rasmussen'; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL search engine (Perl)
>
>
> On Fri, 31 May 2002, Anders Nielsen wrote:
>
> > I can recommend using the Lucene search-engine, it's in Java and it's got
> > nothing to do with PostgreSQL, but it performs excellently.
>
> main drawback of not-db-affiliated search engines is problem to access
> metadata stored in db. Modern portals require a lot of such metadata,
> think about authorization layer, versioning etc.
> Besides that Lucene and many others like namazu (www.namazu.org)
> are good enough. OpenFTS os our attempt to overcome metadata barrier.
>
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kaare Rasmussen [mailto:kar@kakidata.dk]
> > Sent: 31. maj 2002 12:57
> > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> > Subject: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL search engine (Perl)
> >
> >
> > > Search the documentation does not work right now:
> >
> > What I was trying to find was information about full text indexing.
> >
> > It's supposed to be used in a search engine. But maybe someone knows a
> > search engine in Perl optimized for PostgreSQL?
> >
> > One that works ? ;-)
> >
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