Re: full-text indexing

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I have one word for you: CLUSTER. Without it, index lookups are too
> slow. With it, they are rapid. I have done some work like this
> commerically with Ingres, which has an ISAM type that keeps the matching
> rows pretty close on a newly-created ISAM index. In PostgreSQL, and
> regular CLUSTER will keep you good.

I agree! The last bit of advice given in the full text README. As I
said, I'd built full-text stuff for experimentation (I had maybe 30k of
raw text, which amounted to several 100,000 indexed entries), and I had
clustered it, and it was pretty darn fast, even on a Pentium 233 with only
48 megs of RAM. I have significantly better hardware to run it on now.
The original project called MySQL, but it just didn't have what we needed
to put something like this together.

> If you find it slow, let me know. I have done some benchmarking with
> the author and he found it pretty fast, usually a few seconds. See the
> section in my book on CLUSTER for information on _why_ it helps.

Thanks, Bruce.

Brett W. McCoy
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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