[Koha-devel] [Bug 363] Searching on contains works only with full names.

[Anthony W Youngman]

Spoken like a true computer geek ...

I'm sorry, but just because it's hard on the computer doesn't mean that
someone isn't going to want to do it.

Admittedly, our db isn't that big, but "partial" means partial, it does
not mean "starts with".

Two suggestions - either add it as an option, warning that it will need
to scan the entire index and hence is likely to be slow, or create an
index that progressively strips leading characters. To speed a brute
force search up, you could possibly create a file that consists solely
of the words, so you can search that file for matches, and then look up
the match in the index itself. Actually - a third option too - create a
"flipped word" index so you can do an "ends with" search.

Cheers,
Wol

-----Original Message-----
From: bugzilla-daemon at wilbur.katipo.co.nz
[mailto:bugzilla-daemon at wilbur.katipo.co.nz] 
Sent: 24 April 2003 15:47
To: koha-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Koha-devel] [Bug 363] Searching on contains works only with
full names.


http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=363

paul.poulain at free.fr changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |REMIND



------- Additional Comments From paul.poulain at free.fr  2003-04-25 02:46
-------
it's not a bug, it's a feature. I can easily add a search on the
beginning of
the word. It's a very bad idea to add a like %word%, performance would
be really
poor...
so, do we keep "full word only" search or do "starting word" ?



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