Hi Pat, Thank you for your replies. I've continued my investigation and found that SQL Relay might be an option as well: they build a mysql compatibility layer, so you can talk to DB2 using the MySQL dialect and binary protocol. It's a pretty cool project, but I expect lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth to actually get all that working. So I'm checking out Xapian at the moment, which seems to be a little-known but valid alternative.
Btw, we sat at the same table during the community code drive at RailsConf Europe last year. - Johannes On May 25, 7:18 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > Again, unfortunately this is something Thinking Sphinx doesn't > support. I'd love to add XML sources eventually, but it's not been a > popular request thus far (indeed, you may be the first to request it, > although others want CouchDB support, and that'd need to be piped in > via XML as well). > > If you really need XML support, you might have to roll your own > solution using Riddle. > > -- > Pat > > On 25/05/2009, at 8:14 AM, Johannes Fahrenkrug wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I have another question: Sphinx can only pull data directly from > > either MySql or Postgres. It can, however, also call a script that > > supplies the indexer with XML. Is it possible to supply the Sphinx > > indexer with XML and still use Thinking Sphinx in my Rails app? Read: > > can I just use Thinking Sphinx to actually perform the search and use > > my custom xml-generating script to feed Sphinx's index? > > > - Johannes > > > -- > >http://springenwerk.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
