[Python-Dev] Re: [PyCON-Organizers] PyCon: The Spam Continues ; -)

[Bob Ippolito]

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