Richard Huxton

Experience with Full Text Search

PostgreSQL 8.3 finally brings full-text indexing into the core distribution. This talk will give a brief tour of the components making up the full-text search system and explore two real-world uses of it.

There will be exploration of its strengths and weaknesses and a brief discussion of some of the issues scaling from a thousand documents to a million and more.

Bio

Richard Huxton is a London-based independent IT consultant focusing on data-oriented applications for SMEs. First drawn to PostgreSQL by its transaction support back in 1999, Richard is proud to play his part in one of the most knowledgeable and helpful online communities around.