Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:13:43 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: Mysql 321 - Mysql 322 - msql Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811271312130.22687-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <1747.912185625@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Tom Lane wrote: > The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.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@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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