[rt-users] "Final priority" and full-text transaction search

[Jesse]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 04:08:20PM -0400, Rich Graves wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Jesse wrote:
> 
> > no. there is no way to do a search from within RT. This is fixed in
> > 2.0. The technical reason we store transaction content in textfiles
> > dates back to the earliest days of RT ... when it used mini-sql..which
> > had no blob support. RT 2 is designed against modern databases which
> > allow such things :)
> 
> You still can't index BLOBs in most databases, so if you have a lot of
> tickets it will be slow and inefficient. I'll probably stick with the
> htdig wrapper hack for a while.
>
*nod* The thought was to move "old" tickets to a data warehouse rt instance.
also, you'll be able to cut down search time by limiting the search in other 
ways..

 
> Oracle 8i Intermedia is getting there... I noticed a month or two ago that
> www.oracle.com had finally switched from an AltaVista search engine to
> their own product. It won't work reliably on Linux though.
> -- 
> Rich Graves <rcgraves at brandeis.edu>
> UNet Systems Administrator
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