On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Edmar Wiggers wrote:
> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 14:20:17 -0200
> From: Edmar Wiggers <edmar@brasmap.com>
> To: mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
> Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
> Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] OK, does anyone have any better ideas?
>
>
> One possible idea for SQL integration: can one use index access-method
> functions to query the FTS outside the database? Yes, it would require some
> work, but the results I guess it would be wonderful. Ok, Tom, not so fast as
> an index sitting inside Postgres, but AFAICS that's not going to happen
> anytime soon.
We did external indexing using suffix arrays ( http://sary.namazu.org )
for one project because of limiting time :-) But we had to do a lot
of work like ACID (well, we already have some technology) and
everything we get usually from SQL.
Now we're trying to implement fast indexing using GiST.
Regards,
Oleg
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Edmar Wiggers
> BRASMAP Information Systems
> +55 48 9960 2752
>
>
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