[Snowball-discuss] Snowball goes Zope

Andreas Jung Andreas Jung" <andreas@zope.com
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:47:16 -0500


----- Original Message -----
From: "Oleg Bartunov" <oleg@sai.msu.su>
To: "Andreas Jung" <andreas@andreas-jung.com>; <k2pts@cytanet.com.cy>
Cc: <snowball-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 07:46
Subject: Re: [Snowball-discuss] Snowball goes Zope


> On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Andreas Jung wrote:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Oleg Bartunov" <oleg@sai.msu.su>
> > To: "Andreas Jung" <andreas@andreas-jung.com>
> > Cc: <snowball-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 07:35
> > Subject: Re: [Snowball-discuss] Snowball goes Zope
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Andreas, having a chance to ask Zope core developer, I'd like to know
> > > where to get more info about fulltext you developed ?
> > > Did you look on our fulltext search for PostgreSQL ?
> > > (openfts.sourceforge.net). It's specially designed for dynamic
content.
> >
> > quote: "Currently, OpenFTS is implemented as a collection of
PERL-scripts."
> >
> > I don't regard that as an scalable solution :-)
>
> Hmm, it should be corrected :-)
>
> OpenFTS is based on special data type implemented in PostgreSQL
> using C. Perl and Tcl are used as a glue languages for external
interfaces.
> Actually, OpenFTS utilize GiST (Generalised Search Tree) available in
> PostgreSQL (we  maintain this pice of code). It's extremely fast for
> small and medium size collections.
>

How large do you define "medium size". Let's say, I have 3 GB of text.
Can GiST handle that ?

Andreas




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