Re: full text indexing

On 29 Jul 2005 19:28:57 -0700, "Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> >
>> > Full text indexing is more of a document management or string
>> > processing kind of problem that a data management problem;
>> > it's not really on-topic here.
>>
>> Off-topic? If I put up an on-line catalog, I would want search
>> capability of the catalog text. It strikes me as decidedly odd and
>> perverse that the rest of it would be on-topic and this bit would not.
>
>Not every capability that is found in a dbms is part of data
>management theory. Earlier I gave the example of arithmetic.
>Definitely in the dbms. Definitely not a data-management-specific
>topic.
>
>I suppose it depends on how you define database theory. To
>me, data management is about structuring, typing, querying,
>manipulating, and constraining data. Which of those does
>full text search fall under? Querying maybe, I suppose. How
>is it related to relations, though.

     What data is in the tuples of the relations?

>It seems more like a string processing question to me.
>
>Also supporting my claim: no one here has supplied a single
>reference. You'd think if it *was* on-topic, someone would
>have said something, since there are plenty of people here
>who have interesting things to say about database theory.

     Did you notice that I said something? Possibly, because you did reply to my post.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko Received on Mon Aug 01 2005 - 19:20:29 CEST