[Zope] Indexing: ZopeSplitter and numbers

Richard Jones richard@bizarsoftware.com.au
Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:24:23 +1100


On Wednesday 14 November 2001 09:03, sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
> Keep in mind that my production setup is still using Zope 2.3.2.  YMMV.
>
> The only downside we found from hacking the splitter was that wildcard
> searches on single character keywords are bad, bad, bad (they consume a lot
> of resources).  We are working on addressing this on an application by
> application basis (with our classifieds application, we rewrite users
> queries anyways to auto-add wildcards to words longer than 3 characters, so
> checking and this and stripping the wildcards from the search should be
> possible for words of 2 or less characters).

We'd be able to get away with the 3-char word limit, so that's not a real 
problem.


> Numbers cause no problems, for us, at least.  Again, this was with Zope
> 2.3.2...

Hrm, OK, we might modify the splitter in 2.4.3 and see how we go.


     Richard