Thimble Smith wrote:
> At 08:46, 19990806, abu wrote:
> >Someone ask me (linux ug indonesia) about full-text search in text field
> >on mysql, is there feature on new release or how ? Please give me some
> >tips.
>
> There was talk a long time ago about a full-text indexing solution
> for MySQL. It was waiting for the release of MySQL 3.23, which has
> now happened. But I have not heard anything about it for quite some
> time. Nor have I heard anything from the person who was going to be
> implementing it (SerG). So it may be in the works, or it may be dead
> in the water.
>
> I don't see any mention of it on the TODO list, so I don't know if it
> is still a planned project or not.
>
> Tim
>
I recently uploaded DBIx::TextIndex to CPAN, which perl users may find
useful for full-text indexing. It does multi-column inverted indexes, with
boolean searching and relevancy scoring.
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/authors/id/D/DK/DKOCH/DBIx-TextIndex-0.02.tar.gz
Dan Koch
