Re: Improving Full text performance

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, xaviergxf wrote:

> If i strip all html tags and filter more stop words, will the search
> be more accurate? Actually my fulltext stats returns some like: font
> from <font> tags i guess, and other garbage.
> If i do that, will i improve the speed of my search?

What do you mean 'accurate' ? You need be yourself a bit more 'accurate'
when asking:) You need to provide more information about your problem.
For example, version of postgresql, size of collection you indexed,
explain analyze for your query, 'garbage' you got, etc.
This is not difficult - just copy'n paste work.

>
> Thanks!
>
> Ps: I cannot use other tools like MNOsearch, lucene, etc...because i
> have no root pass to my server.
>
> On 22 ago, 02:20, o(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su (Oleg Bartunov) wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, xaviergxf wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > =A0 I?m using php and full text on postgresql 8.3 for indexing html
> > > descriptions. I have no acess to postgresql server, since i use a
> > > shared hosting service.
> > > =A0 =A0To improve search and performance, i want to do the follow:
> >
> > > Strip all html tags then use my php script to remove more stop words
> > > (because i can?t edit stop words file on the server).
> >
> > > My question: What i?m thinking to do, has any collateral effects? Any
> > > suggestions?
> >
> > You shouldn't bother to strip all html tags, just create your own text se=
> arch
> > configuration, which index only what do you want. Read documentation for
> > details.
> >
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Regards,
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Oleg
> > _____________________________________________________________
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Regards,
Oleg
_____________________________________________________________
Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru),
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
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