Re: Distributed Fulltext?

2002-02-14 Thread Alex Aulbach
Wednesday, from David Axmark: > > Your other point about exact vs. approximate answers is unclear, I expect > > that Google's answers are exact for their currently available indexes at any > > given time. But even if they are approximate, I'd be happy with that too. > > The scoring on a FULLTEXT

Re: Distributed Fulltext?

2002-02-14 Thread Alex Aulbach
Wednesday, from Mike Wexler: > I don't think that would be appropriate. My example, is our site (tias.com) has > lots of antiques and collectibles. One popular categories is jewelry. If > somebody does a search for "gold jewelry" and the search engine interprets this > as anything that mentions go

Re: Distributed Fulltext?

2002-02-14 Thread Alex Aulbach
Hi, I also will explain how we made FTS "fast". (sorry for my bad english) First some DATA: The table which has to be indexed has ~60 entries. There are articles inside it, which are in average 3-4 kb each (which says nothing!) with about 300 words each (this number is very important!). Thi

RE: long query on php

2002-02-13 Thread Alex Aulbach
Yesterday, from savaidis: > The obious question is: (before I test it) > This is concatenation to $query that is a string type, no? Yea. The following works either: mysql_query("create bla". "bla". "bla bla blabla ". "bla" ."bla" ); > So the limit isn't

Re: FULL-TEXT Index / Searching Question (fwd)

2002-02-12 Thread Alex Aulbach
Tuesday, from Matt Rudderham: > Hello, I have two tables in my database as such: > > CREATE TABLE `skill_names` ( > `id` bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, > `name` varchar(30) NOT NULL default '', > PRIMARY KEY (`id`) > ); > > CREATE TABLE `skills` ( > `skills_id` int(11) NOT NULL aut

Re: Distributed Fulltext?

2002-02-12 Thread Alex Aulbach
Yesterday, from Brian DeFeyter: > Has anyone made a suggestion or thought about ways to distribute > databases which focus on fulltext indexes? > > fulltext indexes do a good job of indexing a moderate amount of data, > but when you get a lot of data to be indexed, the queries slow down > signifi

Re: long query on php

2002-02-11 Thread Alex Aulbach
Yesterday, from Nathan: > Since PHP ignores whitespace, I think this is also acceptable: PHP doesn't ignore whitespace in a quote. But your code is of course correct. > $query = "CREATE TABLE query > tabledef for col a, > tabledef for col b, > lots more table defs, > . > welcome t

Re: Distributed Fulltext?

2002-02-08 Thread Alex Aulbach
Yesterday, from Brian DeFeyter: > Has anyone made a suggestion or thought about ways to distribute > databases which focus on fulltext indexes? > > fulltext indexes do a good job of indexing a moderate amount of data, > but when you get a lot of data to be indexed, the queries slow down > signifi

Re: FULL-TEXT Index / Searching Question (fwd)

2002-02-08 Thread Alex Aulbach
Tuesday, from Matt Rudderham: > Hello, I have two tables in my database as such: > > CREATE TABLE `skill_names` ( > `id` bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, > `name` varchar(30) NOT NULL default '', > PRIMARY KEY (`id`) > ); > > CREATE TABLE `skills` ( > `skills_id` int(11) NOT NULL aut

Re: long query on php

2002-02-07 Thread Alex Aulbach
Yesterday, from Nathan: > Since PHP ignores whitespace, I think this is also acceptable: PHP doesn't ignore whitespace in a quote. But your code is of course correct. > $query = "CREATE TABLE query > tabledef for col a, > tabledef for col b, > lots more table defs, > . > welcome t

RE: long query on php

2002-02-07 Thread Alex Aulbach
Yesterday, from savaidis: > The obious question is: (before I test it) > This is concatenation to $query that is a string type, no? Yea. The following works either: mysql_query("create bla". "bla". "bla bla blabla ". "bla" ."bla" ); > So the limit isn't

Re: Fulltext problems 4.0.1 part two (fwd)

2002-02-03 Thread Alex Aulbach
I found out, that the fulltext engine is misbehaving with less than 5 entries. Seems to me, that this is exactly the same case... Perhaps a flush inside the engine or so isn't made with such less entries? The bug is also in 3.23 gamma. Workaround: Enter more rows to fix it. :) I send this bug