On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > On 27 Nov 1998, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> >> See http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ for a powerful inverted indexing
> >> engine and various related software.
>
> > Just curious, but other then specialized applications like
> > Glimpse, does anyone actually support/do this?
>
> I dearly love Glimpse. (Sample things I use it for: rooting through
> nearly 10 years worth of archived email; finding all references to a
> particular name in the Postgres sources, almost instantly; ditto for the
> even larger Ptolemy sources; looking for files that I can't remember
> where I put ... it's great. And aren't the Postgres mailing list
> archive indexes Glimpse-driven?)
Nope, I use ht/Dig for it...
> A seamless integration would make Glimpse indexes be a new type of
> index associated with a new match operator, something like
> create index index1 on table using glimpse (text_field);
> select * from table where glimpse(text_field, 'pattern');
> I have no idea how hard that would be...
Anyone? This one I'd love to see...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
