[Info-vax] Looking for some text search ideas

[David Froble]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Paul Sture wrote 2014-09-27 13:01:
>> On 2014-09-27, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>
>>>> A good regular expression engine would run circles around INSTR in both
>>>> functionality and performance. A full text search engine would too, and
>>>> if the data are simple, you could build your own with only moderate
>>>> trouble that indexed words (or characters if you wish) and saved either
>>>> unique key values or RFAs to get from the search string back to the
>>>> containing record(s).
>>>>
>>> Not RMS, but similar.  The product file is just records with 50-60 data
>>> fields...
> 
> 
> Was it ever mentioned how many records/products we are
> talkning about here? A couple of thousands or millions?
> 
> 

A static allotment of a million nodes worked for all but one customer. 
That one customer has about 2.5 million product records.  I'm betting 
their product file could use some clean-up, but that type of activity 
doesn't sell parts.  Don't count on it happening.  Just sell them more 
memory.