On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Gustavo
>
> Sphinx itself does not support Oracle, so Thinking Sphinx doesn't. Sphinx 
> 0.9.9 and (I assume) 1.10 supports ODBC as a work-around - and there may be a 
> fork of TS somewhere that does support ODBC, but the main release does not. 
> To be honest, not entirely sure that would be possible (partial support, yes, 
> but all features, unlikely).

I've found this two forks which is said to support Oracle. Which one
you recommend me?

https://github.com/cjk/thinking-sphinx
https://github.com/ebeigarts/ts-xml

>
> So the short answer is: you can't use Thinking Sphinx and Oracle together.
>
> I'm kinda happy to accept patches for ODBC/Oracle, except I don't have 
> Oracle, so I can't test against it (and given it's commercial, not rushing to 
> purchase a copy for just that purpose).

Oracle has a free version called Oracle Express Edition. Anyone can
download this version from their website at no charge. I'd like to
contribute to TS but I suspect that I didn't have the necessary
experience with RoR to do that right know.

>
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> Pat
>
> On 17/12/2010, at 11:24 PM, Gustavo de Sá Carvalho Honorato wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> how can I get Thinking Sphinx working with Oracle? Any special configuration 
>> is required?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gustavo
>>
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