> I've just done some performance comparisons between contrib/fulltextindex
> and contrib/tsearch. Even with every optimisation I can think of for
> fulltextindex, tsearch is 300 times faster ;)
>
> Plus it doesn't require a separate table or complicated queries.
>
> I think we should strongly encourage people to use tsearch instead of
> fulltextindex. I hope to commit some change to fulltextindex in the near
> future, so I'll add a note to the readme then.
>
Ditto. We just replaced Oracle Context Search with tsearch and it's just as
good for what we were using it for and nicer to play with.
There's no scoring as far as I can see but I can live with that.
(and hello fellow aussie)
Cheers,
Graeme