[Zope] Searching: Zcatalog, what else?

[Casey Duncan]

MySQL has full text indexing capabilities. I have not used them myself 
in an application though. AFAIK it does not support boolean searches tho.

-Casey

Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:39:00PM +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> 
>>Paul Winkler writes:
>> > re. search engines in zope:
>> > I know there's Zcatalog, but I'm curious
>> > what my other options are for implementing searches.
>> > Simply finding a string in the body of a document
>> > would be great.
>>"ZopeFind" does this, though not index supported and therefore quite slow...
>>
> 
> No good then... I want searching to be quickish and
> I don't want it to bog down my zope.
> 
> 
>> > For example, How would you do text search if your data is in an 
>> > SQL database?  Maintain a separate text index and update it every so often?
>>The easiest solution would be that your SQL database would support
>>text queries efficiently...
>>
> 
> Which ones do this? Anybody know offhand?
> I think I'm limited to mysql and postgresql on my host...
> but might be able to install something else that runs on linux.
> 
> THanks,
> 
> PW
> 
> 
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