[dokuwiki] Re: search improvements

  • From: Thanos Massias <tm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:47:47 +0300

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Guy Brand wrote:
> On 31 août at 14:45, Thanos Massias wrote:
> 
>> You could try splitting the word data but this will get quite
>> complicated. For example you could some hashing by splitting the word
>> index in a series of datafiles depending, say on the first character (or
>> more if we are talking about huge wikis) of the word. Then, given a
>> search word you only have to search the relevant word index file.
> 
>   How do you handle looking for "wiki" in such a schema, as you would
>   expect pages with "dokuwiki" to match too?
> 

You are right on that but maybe a trade-off isn't out of the question.

You can switch to a partial matching on beginning of searched words only
(ie 'wiki' will match 'wikis', 'wikify' etc but not 'dokuwiki').

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Best regards,
Thanos Massias
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