From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
---|---|
To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, database(at)FreeBSD(dot)ORG |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Mysql 321 - Mysql 322 - msql |
Date: | 1998-11-27 17:13:43 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.05.9811271312130.22687-100000@thelab.hub.org |
Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
Thread: | |
Lists: | pgsql-hackers |
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)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(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
From | Date | Subject | |
---|---|---|---|
Next Message | Tom | 1998-11-27 17:47:55 | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Mysql 321 - Mysql 322 - msql |
Previous Message | Tom Lane | 1998-11-27 16:53:45 | Re: [HACKERS] Re: Mysql 321 - Mysql 322 - msql |