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

From Charles Sprickman
Subject Re: Writting a "search engine" for a pgsql DB
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Msg-id Pine.OSX.4.64.0702271833470.289@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com
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In response to Re: Writting a "search engine" for a pgsql DB  (Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: Writting a "search engine" for a pgsql DB  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Re: Writting a "search engine" for a pgsql DB  (Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>)
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Dave Page wrote:

> 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.

At risk of pulling this way too far off topic, may I ask how many
documents (mail messages) you were dealing with when things started to
fall apart with mnogo?  We're looking at it for a new project that will
hopefully get bigger and bigger.  We will be throwing groups of mailing
lists into their own mnogo config/tables...  If we should save ourselves
the pain and look at something more homebrew, then we'll start
investigating "Tsearch".

Thanks,

Charles

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