On Donnerstag 17 September 2009 Jonathan Feally wrote:
> FTI would help searching greatly, however on MySQL the default is to
> only index words 4 chars or longer. Thus it makes it unreliable when
> searching for a small word of 3 chars or less. You can change it to
> index 3 chars, which would probably be sufficient, but since this is
> a global change on the whole database server and would require a
> restart, not everyone would be able to use it (hosted databases). I
> am unsure of SQLite FTI. I really can't see support of SQLite
> remaining beyond 2.4 because of the multi-server over a network
> requirement of 2.5 Hydra.

That's why I said it maybe should be configurable. There's always 
somebody/something not wanting/supporting that feature, but it could 
help those with the capabilities to use it.

> Do you know what PostgreSQL does in as far as what is indexed?

No. I just read on the pg-users ML that 8.3 has that, and we are on 8.4 
already. So maybe support is even better there. But I never used it, not 
having a program using it....

mfg zmi
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