Re: Postgres + Xapian (was Re: fulltext searching via a custom index type ) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Postgres + Xapian (was Re: fulltext searching via a custom index type )
Date
Msg-id 20040103161205.GA10977@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to Re: Postgres + Xapian (was Re: fulltext searching via a  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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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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