On Mar 31, 2006 8:06 AM, Marco Bambini wrote:
> > Unfortunately that does not make any difference if the
> > search is made using 'LIKE' because SQLite will ignore the
> > index and will perform a full table scan. See 5.5.1 at:
> > http://web.utk.edu/~jplyon/sqlite/SQLite_optimization_FAQ.html
>
> The document refers to version 2.8.6 (10 September 2003), a lot of
> changes occurs in sqlite since that version.

Yes, I know it's for an old version, but the part I was referring was
ONLY to using the 'LIKE' with a index. Does SQLite currently uses an
index (if present) when the search is made with 'LIKE' or performs a
full table scan?

> Anyway, sqlite doesn't officially supports full text index,
> but a guy wrote a small full text search engine for sqlite3 on
> sourceforge.net.
> It is C/C++ code and I am not sure you can do the same things with
> the REALSQLDatabase, even if I am quite sure you can recreate the
> same algorithms with RB and SQLite3ProfessionalPlugin.
<snip>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ft3

Their home page has also very good info:
http://ft3.sourceforge.net/

It would be great if REALSQLDatabase had this implemented or if
someone developed a plugin to use in conjunction with it.

Carlos

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