On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 08:58 AM, Dennis Gearon wrote:
Heath Tanner wrote:I wrote a quick'n'dirty search engine (using PostgreSQL, of course) for exactly that reason.
Not to take anything away from the books on the topic, but my favorite source is the docs that got installed with postgres (/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html).
The index isn't great, but easily overcome: grep -i "search phrase" /usr/local/pgsql/doc/html/* | less
Try to do that with a book. :-)
That brings ujp a good point, indexes in many technical bools are pathetic.
Jeff
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