[Koha-devel] full text search

[paul POULAIN]

Hi,

I'm playing with full text searches, that enables you do search very 
fast in a db, it replaces the where field like "%xx%" that is VERY slow 
on big tables (non indexed search).
It's really a nice feature : immediate result for a search on a 400 000 
lines table ! The same search with like %xx% is... more than 30s long 
(full parsing of the table) !
The problem is that i think this feature is not ANSI-92, so is mysql 
only compatible.

Do you think we should ignore this feature, or become definetly mysql 
based product ? (unless it's ansi92, in this case, please say it !)

documentation :
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Fulltext_Search.html

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIBGB libre http://fr.koha.org)