Oleg Bartunov wrote: > Folks, > > tsearch2 and Lucene are very different search engines, so it'd be unfair > comparison. If you need full access to metadata and instant indexing > you, probably, find tsearch2 is more suitable then Lucene. But, if > you could live without that features and need to search read only > archives you need Lucene. > > Tsearch2 integration into pgsql would be cool, but, I see no problem to > use tsearch2 as an official extension module. After completing our > todo, which we hope will likely happens for 8.2 release, you could > forget about Lucene and other engines :) We'll be available for developing > in spring and we estimate about three months for our todo, so, it's > really doable.
Agreed. There isn't anything magical about a plug-in vs something integrated, as least in PostgreSQL. In other database, plug-ins can't fully function as integrated, but in PostgreSQL, everything is really a plug-in because it is all abstracted. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
