[elephant-devel] full text indexing

[Ben]

i don't know how to do this sort of thing.  AFAICT the "update
problem" is an issue for most indexing systems.  have you looked at
lucene et al?

B

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, [iso-8859-1] Gábor Melis wrote:

> There are 100k users in the db. Each user has a description string. I need to
> search users for words in their descriptions by prefix. Currently I lean
> towards simply maintaining a reverse word->oid index in a btree. Searching
> this is easy, but whenever a description changes the old mapping entries for
> that oid need to be deleted and the new ones added. Has any of you
> implemented such a scheme or have other ideas?
>
> Cheers, Gábor
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