| From: | "Gene Selkov Jr(dot)" <selkovjr(at)mcs(dot)anl(dot)gov> |
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| To: | Nicholas Humfrey <nhumfrey(at)poboxes(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Text Databases |
| Date: | 1998-12-03 21:21:38 |
| Message-ID: | 199812032119.PAA11050@antares.mcs.anl.gov |
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> On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> >it sounds like you're looking at the wrong tool for a particular job.
>
> I am trying to get the best of both worlds. A good relational database
> system as well as being able to do text searches in mutiple fields.
>
Why wouldn't you just build a consolidated index from the data in your
multiple fields, then load it into postgres or any other database
engine?
Dustin made a good point: things you are contemplating to do are not
exactly the job of a database backend. Its all yours: the database you
are building is just as good as the index you design and implement in
the form of a relation or a set of relations, which postgres will take
care of.
--Gene
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