[Zope] Searching: Zcatalog, what else?

Paul Winkler pw_lists@slinkp.com
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:37:48 -0700


On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:39:00PM +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Paul Winkler writes:
>  > re. search engines in zope:
>  > I know there's Zcatalog, but I'm curious
>  > what my other options are for implementing searches.
>  > Simply finding a string in the body of a document
>  > would be great.
> "ZopeFind" does this, though not index supported and therefore quite slow...

No good then... I want searching to be quickish and
I don't want it to bog down my zope.

>  > For example, How would you do text search if your data is in an 
>  > SQL database?  Maintain a separate text index and update it every so often?
> The easiest solution would be that your SQL database would support
> text queries efficiently...

Which ones do this? Anybody know offhand?
I think I'm limited to mysql and postgresql on my host...
but might be able to install something else that runs on linux.

THanks,

PW