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It is obvious that the matter of a full-text search engine implementation is becoming more and more important (at least as far as my work is concerned) .

A while ago I implemented the TSearch2 full-text search engine with one of our PostgreSQL databases¹. Let me say that it wasn’t easy (mostly because I wanted to make it support the Romanian language), although I did get it working properly with quite impressive effects². (more…)

1. I have yet to use my TSearch2 implementation in a heavy traffic environment. ⇑
2. From what I could gather from my experience until now and by reading other reviews, tests and opinions, I know that TSearch2 updates it’s indexes in real-time while searching and indexing becomes increasingly slower with large-sized indexes. ⇑

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Some time ago (a few years back), while I was working on a small CRM-like project based on PHP, I had an idea about an ERP-related software that, in very few words, has to do with writing enterprise management applications (for instance an accounting application)¹. My first real concern was how would such a beast would be implemented and more importantly on what platform? (more…)

1. I will not go into the details about this software (since I am trying to keep it something of a secret until the first release). ⇑

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