[Koha-devel] full text search

paul POULAIN paul at koha-fr.org
Mon Dec 9 02:12:04 CET 2002


Anthony W. Youngman a écrit:

> Think Pick.
>
> I don't know whether MySQL can do it, but can you create a virtual 
> column containing all consecutive character strings, and index on 
> that? Your free text search would need to search on whole words in 
> that case, but the result would be very fast, and *should* be database 
> independent.
>
That's what we planned to do in 2,0 version, and the db is organised to 
do this.
But it will complicate a lot the search api and i'm not sure we could do 
as fast as mysql succedeed to do internally ?

So the question is still open... any other opinion anyone ?

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIBGB libre http://fr.koha.org)

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