On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 07:09:24PM +1300, Robert Collins wrote: > Hi, as you may have noticed, bug search in Launchpad is not as fast as > you might wish :). One of the contributing factors to the search > performance is that we do a substring match for package names. > > We're looking at schema changes and additional short-term solutions > (long term we're moving to a dedicated search engine such as Lucene), > but I'm wondering - how important is this substring matching? > > What do I mean by this? If you type 'ibche' into the bug search for > Ubuntu it will time out. But if it didn't timeout it would find all > bugs on libchewing (because ibche is a substring on libchewing). > > If Ubuntu as a whole is open to this being removed temporarily(*) then > we can drop some representative queries down from 7 seconds to 380ms > with relatively little effort. We may be able to achieve this sort of > result with more significant effort - but if its not actually a > valuable feature, its much more efficient to disable it for a while.
I'm a bit confused here as you've mentioned package names and bug search. Would this type of change modify the search mechanism behind both https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu (Find a Package here)? Thanks, -- Brian Murray Ubuntu Bug Master
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