On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Amir E. Aharoni<[email protected]> wrote: > 2. The info won't be up-to-date. Would it be too much to ask to search > the database directly using regexes?
What's your use case? Obviously all the points below are valid and rule out directly regex searching on the entire Wikipedia database, for instance, but I wonder if you could have hybrid cases like "return pages that contain X and regex Y". Since X can be indexed, you're immediately working on a (much) smaller subset. (Then again, AWB already supports this I think) Not sure what cases you need full regex for though. Obviously regexes like "foo(.*)bar" have wide applicability...but the more esoteric forms? Steve _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
