> You can send an xml "docset" document to sphinx to build the index; use the > xmlpipe2 source type in your conf and have a script that will generate the > xml to STDOUT. > The docset contains a set of documents with id's (which you might map to the > id in a table in your database if you were using it). Each document contains > a set of field tags with the information you want to index. > I don't know how that squares with large datasets - my app was very small. > I use the Riddle client that comes with Thinking Sphinx to talk to searchd.
I'm worried that it would takes quite a long with a lot of records (>2M) :( @Philip: I've seen about delta indexes, and I'll go with them :) From what I've read sphinx is also a lot faster than ferret to rebuild all the indexes :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
