Matthew Wilson wrote:
I have a lot of code -- millions of lines at this point, written over the last 5 years. Everything is in a bunch of nested folders. At least once a week, I want to find some code that uses a few modules, so I have to launch a find + grep at the top of the tree and then wait for it to finish. I wonder if I could store our source code in a postgresql table and then use full text searching to index. Then I hope I could run a query where I ask for all files that use modules X, Y, and Z.
DBMSs are great tools for the right job, but IMO this is not the right job. I can't see how a database engine, with all it's transactional overhead and many other layers, will ever beat a simple grep performance-wise. I've used Eclipse for refactoring, but having done it once, I'm sticking with grep.
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