[Python-Dev] Re: [PyCON-Organizers] PyCon: The Spam Continues ; -)
Bob Ippolito
bob at redivi.com
Tue Jan 25 19:13:24 CET 2005
On Jan 25, 2005, at 12:29, David Ascher wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>
>>> Modulo some SQLServer features we're using.
>>>
>> Well free-text indexing would be my first guess. Anything else of
>> interest? MySQL's free text indexing really sucks compared with SQL
>> Server's, which to my mind is a good justification for the Microsoft
>> product.
>
> Freetext search is one of them, but there may be others (I think there
> are some stored procedure in some MS language). I'm hardly a SQL
> expert, or an expert on our ASPN infrastructure.
There is OpenFTS <http://openfts.sourceforge.net/> for PostgreSQL
<http://postgresql.org>. I'm not sure how it compares to SQL Server's
or MySQL's, but it's been around a while so I expect it's pretty
decent.
-bob
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