[Dbix-class] text search

Devin Austin devin.austin at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 04:16:17 GMT 2012


Postgres allows you to perform full text search using tsearch. That might be worth looking into.

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On Feb 15, 2012, at 6:03 PM, Paolo Gianrossi <paolino.gianrossi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> I have a Schema/Result class holding user stories. These user stories have various fields, most importantly an Owner (foreign key to another class, User), a body (Text) and a "reason" (more text).
> 
> What I need to do is enable my users to search for stories of an owner (typing the username/part of username they want) or for matching keywords inside body and/or reason. This sounds to me very close to fulltext search, but I was wondering if there is a standard/best practice way to manage this need, considering the possibility of changing DB backend (SQLite to MySQL or pgsql probably...)
> 
> Any clues or pointers?
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> cheers
> paolino
> 
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