Re: Lucene index database

2006-07-12 Thread Chris Lu
What Erick and Michael said are all correct, or the same. :) What Lucene can do is search data that stored into Document objects. Lucene is said to be able to search html, pdf, etc, but that's because those formats are relatively fixed. You can easily tell title, content, etc. With database, whi

Re: Lucene index database

2006-07-12 Thread Erick Erickson
What Michael said :).

Re: Lucene index database

2006-07-12 Thread Michael J. Prichard
Ha Erick, we must have sent our responses at the same time :) What Erick said :) Erick Erickson wrote: This has been extensively discussed in the mail archive, I think a search of the archive would help you a lot. The short form is no. There's nothing built into Lucene to help you index a

Re: Lucene index database

2006-07-12 Thread Michael J. Prichard
Hey there Teresa. Short answer: Not directly. Long answer: Lucene is a set of libraries built for indexing text and then searching those indexes. Not sure what you mean by indexing a database per se. You could write some code to get the records you want from the database and then index tho

Re: Lucene index database

2006-07-12 Thread Erick Erickson
This has been extensively discussed in the mail archive, I think a search of the archive would help you a lot. The short form is no. There's nothing built into Lucene to help you index a database. How would you define that anyway? That said, you can write a program to extract data from the data

Lucene index database

2006-07-12 Thread mcarcelen
Hi, Can Lucene index a database? PostgreSQL, Mysql, Access ? Thanks Cheers Teresa - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]