You might want to take a look at 7.2 new tsearch module. It sounds
like precisely what you are looking for.
http://openfts.sourceforge.net/
It's what the PostgreSQL project is using to index their mailing
lists. Check out fts.postgresql.org for a nifty demonstration.
Jason
Jocelyn Callier <callier@vdl2.ca> writes:
> Hi all.
> I'm using Postgres 7.1 to store emails archives. I want to perform a
> full text search in emails' contents. Emails' content can be quite big
> (up to 15000 characters). I've already seen that Regex match function
> '~' is way faster than the classical sql 'LIKE' function.
>
> Is there another tip to make the search faster ? Something like
> automatic indexation of words when insering the text ? Or, I don't
> know, optimization stuff... ?
>
> Any help would be appreciate.
>
> Thanks.
>
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