On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:36:11PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Dave Page wrote: > > >Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> > >>Just as a datapoint, we did try to use mnogosearch for the > >>postgresql.org website+archives search, and it fell over completely. > >>Indexing took way too long, and we had search times several thousand > >>times longer than with tsearch2. > >> > >>That said, I'm sure there are cases when it works fine :-) > > > >There are - in fact before your time the site did use Mnogosearch. We > >moved to our own port of ASPSeek when we outgrew Mnogo's capabilities, > >and then to your TSearch code when we outgrew ASPSeek. > > At risk of pulling this way too far off topic, may I ask how many > documents (mail messages) you were dealing with when things started to > fall apart with mnogo? We're looking at it for a new project that will > hopefully get bigger and bigger. We will be throwing groups of mailing > lists into their own mnogo config/tables... If we should save ourselves > the pain and look at something more homebrew, then we'll start > investigating "Tsearch". I don't know when it broke exactly, but I know we're currently doing about 600,000 documents. AFAIK it started to fall apart pretty long before that. //Magnus
