On Fri, May 11, 2018, at 14:25, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:--On 11. Mai 2018 um 13:32:29 +0200 Robert Stepanek <r...@fastmailteam.com> wrote: > For non-FUZZY text SEARCH, Cyrus attempts to match the string on its > own [1].That sounds strange to me, because Cyrus 2.4 and earlier don't support FUZZY, and there the SQUAT index was used, if present. Only messages that were added after the last squatter run were searched directly. Why would that have changed?Right, it hasn't. SQUAT is still the backend for non-FUZZY text search.
But search_engine is either squat or xapian. That would mean that one would have to run squatter with two separate configurations in order to cover both search types. That's at the very least counterintuitive ...
Should I open a Github issue for that topic? I see more than one approach to solve that.
I think if Xapian only does fuzzy, some searches may be *slower* than using a SQUAT index. That seems counterintuitive, at the least. Do you have internal search benchmarks? Without metrics it's hard to say if any of this actually matters ...I don't know of any benchmarks for this. It hasn't popped up as a performance issue.
I thought Xapian was added to improve all IMAP BODY searches, but I guess the only reason was to enable IMAP FUZZY searches. In my opinion this needs to be stated explicitly in the documentation, if that's the way it will be going forward.
Cheers Sebastian -- Sebastian Hagedorn - Weyertal 121, Zimmer 2.02 Regionales Rechenzentrum (RRZK) Universität zu Köln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-470-89578
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