Madison Kelly wrote: > Hi all, > > I am asking in this list because, at the end of the day, this is a > performance question. > > I am looking at writing a search engine of sorts for my database. I > have only ever written very simple search engines before which amounted > to not much more that the query string being used with ILIKE on a pile > of columns. This was pretty rudimentary and didn't offer anything like > relevance sorting and such (I'd sort by result name, age or whatnot). > > So I am hoping some of you guys and gals might be able to point me > towards some resources or offer some tips or gotcha's before I get > started on this. I'd really like to come up with a more intelligent > search engine that doesn't take two minutes to return results. :) I > know, in the end good indexes and underlying hardware will be important, > but a sane as possible query structure helps to start with. See search.postgresql.org, you can download all source from gborg.postgresql.org. Joshua D. Drake > > Thanks all!! > > Madison > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/