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
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