Wouldn't we need another "driver" for this? I mean, I know sphinx is great but it's nowhere as popular as myisam. ;) Even innodb is not as common in MySQL installations today.
If anyone wants to code this up, I have no objections. But including it by default wouldn't work out right now. :) Till On 10/17/07, Ethan Erchinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recommend trying Sphinx. Most of the hard work has been taken care of > already. > > http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 12:16 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RCD] Fulltext message searching > > > Hello, > > Has a fulltext message searching feature been considered? I think it > would > be very handy. It could use a MySQL table to store hashes of the message > text (with all HTML, nontext characters, and other formatting removed to > reduce size). When a search is performed, it could utilize MySQL's > FULLTEXT > feature to deliver lightning fast search results similar to gmail, > hotmail, > etc. > > It could maybe have an automated indexer that works in the background > indexing one or two unindexed messages at a time on each ajax request > from > the browser (after the data is returned to the browser to prevent > lagging). > > The feature could of course be turned off (maybe off by default?) if the > user didn't want to use the extra diskspace/processor cycles. > > Does this sound like something you'd like to see in RC? If so, I can > develop the backend for this system if somebody else can write the > interface/ajax integration. > > Thanks, > Ben _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
