Re: Writting a "search engine" for a pgsql DB - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Writting a "search engine" for a pgsql DB
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Msg-id 45E4333B.9020008@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: Writting a "search engine" for a pgsql DB  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Writting a "search engine" for a pgsql DB  (Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>)
Re: Writting a "search engine" for a pgsql DB  ("Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>)
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> Just as a datapoint, we did try to use mnogosearch for the
> postgresql.org website+archives search, and it fell over completely.
> Indexing took way too long, and we had search times several thousand
> times longer than with tsearch2.
>
> That said, I'm sure there are cases when it works fine :-)

There are - in fact before your time the site did use Mnogosearch. We
moved to our own port of ASPSeek when we outgrew Mnogo's capabilities,
and then to your TSearch code when we outgrew ASPSeek.

When we outgrow PostgreSQL & Tsearch2, then, well, we'll need to stop
pretending to be Google...

/D

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