Yes, it basically means maintaining a table of words and what messages they
are in. Of course, it's complicated by support for languages like Japanese
where there are no spaces. And yes, there is a performance hit to update
this table, although the indexing can presumably be done in the background
at idle time.
Dan
On 11/13/2000 10:47 PM, "Bryan Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Out of curiosity, from a programming standpoint, how hard is it to "index"
> the message text? Is it just building a table of words and what messages
> they're in? Does it take a performance hit for constantly updating this
> table?
>
>
>
>
>> From: Nick Beadman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 20:58:15 -0800
>> To: Entourage Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: index the message body field? [�] YES
>>
>> I too would like the message body indexed. The only caveat is that I would
>> like the index of everything to be separate from the messages. The one thing
>> that I really liked about OE 4.5 over OE 5 and above is now everyday I end
>> up backing up 150MB a day when I only get maybe 30 emails a day. It would be
>> excellent if all the indexes (and anything that can be rebuilt) were clearly
>> labeled and separate so that I only back up the bare minimum.
>>
>> Nick
>>
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>> http://www.polymorph.net
>> PolyMorph Software Development, fine utilities for your Mac.
>>
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