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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 1998 13:56:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
Cc:        freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Mailing list search interface
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330134953.7795A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980330102629.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>

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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote:

> Truth must be told, currently PostgreSQL uses Unix files to store its
> indices and tables, so performance is not all that it could be.  I am

A properly constructed index for a full text database (read: NOT
glimpse) requires very little disk i/o for most queries.  Eg,
prefix trie hashing requires about two reads per search term in
the query.  I just read a paper describing some optimtzaion that
reduces that to one read about 50% of the time.

-john


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