On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:09:28AM +0100, IvorW wrote:
# What directory can I use to store indexes in for searching?
On Mon 10 May 2004, Dominic Hargreaves dom@earth.li wrote:
As an aside (and I admit I've not looked at the code in this regard) what is the rationale behind these being in a separate database from the rest?
When I wrote this bit, the only decent search modules on CPAN were DBIx::FullTextSearch, which only worked with MySQL and Search::InvertedIndex, which worked with MySQL and DBM. I wrote an extension to make Search::InvertedIndex work with Postgres, but the core would need to be patched to make it work with SQLite and, well, I sent the patch, and I prodded, but the maintainer was ill and busy. So the only choice was to go with the DBM files.
Long-term I want to move the search over to Plucene - Simon has been working on a CGI::Wiki plugin for it.
Kake