Forum OpenACS Q&A: OpenFTS, tsearch, postgresql 7.4, and aolserver 4.0

Posted by Dave Bauer on 12/11/03 08:39 PM

Has anyone built OpenFTS 0.3.2 and tsearch against postgresql 7.4 and aolserver 4.0?

I have migrated my web site to postgresql 7.4, and I forgot about OpenFTS. I haven't been able to get it working yet.

Posted by Jorge Garcia on 12/11/03 09:09 PM

We haven't tried yet.

But related to this, I have seen there is a new version of OpenFTS, 0.3.5, from a week ago, but in the original Perl version.

The new TSearch2 and the new OpenFTS 0.3.5 looks very promising.

1. There are plans to make a tcl version soon?.

We are playing with htdig, swish-e and swish++ and frankly they left many space to improve.

2. Someone has playing with OpenFTS 0.3.5 and TSearch2 to replace the classical search engines?

/Jorge

Posted by Rafael Calvo on 11/26/04 07:35 AM

Hi
Going back to Dave's question.

Has anyone built OpenFTS 0.3.2 and tsearch against postgresql 7.4 and aolserver 4.0?

Rafael

Posted by Claudio Pasolini on 11/26/04 08:40 AM

Yes, and it works, even if I had some problem with non US characters.

Posted by Dave Bauer on 11/26/04 02:56 PM

Try tsearch2-driver from HEAD. It needs a little work, but I am running it on my web site and a couple of client web sites .

I will be working on it to release an OpenACS 5.1 compatible version soon. It should install fine on an existing openacs 5.1 site.

tsearch2 includes the OpenFTS parser so you don't need the seperate Tcl or Perl parser.