[Zope] ZCTextIndex - prefix wildcards not supported?

[Small Business Services]

Thanks for the alternative Andreas, however we currently have ZCTextIndex
installed in a ZCatalog that has about 700,000 entries (about 3Gb of data)
and would prefer to stay with ZCTextIndex (unless there are some other
advantages to move to TextIndexNG2 given our situation?).

Is there any way/interest in having this '*term' type of wildcard searching
built into ZCTextIndex?

jh


> TextIndexNG2 supports this feature.
>
> -aj
>
> --On Donnerstag, 20. November 2003 12:38 Uhr -0500 Small Business Services
> <toolkit at magma.ca> wrote:
>
> > Why are wildcards '?' and '*' not supported at the beginning of search
> > terms in ZCTextIndex?  It would be very useful to search for terms using
> > '*someterm'.
> >
> > In the cvs for ZCTextIndex, Lexicon.py
> > (http://cvs.zope.org/Products/ZCTextIndex/Lexicon.py?annotate=1.17.10.2)
> >
> > the code raises an exception for wildcards at the beginning of search
> > terms (see line 113) and a related comment says"
> >
> > 111                                  # The pattern starts with a
globbing
> > character. 112                                  # This is too efficient,
> > so we raise an exception.
> >
> > Why is this 'too efficient"?
> >
> >
> > Jonathan