[htdig-dev] Phrase search capability in 3.1.6

[Ravi S. <ra...@vi...>]

Greets all,

I have been working with htDig for almost a year now, and see a dramatic =
difference in the performance between version 3.1.x and 3.2.x. I am =
currently forced to use 3.2.x, because phrase searching is a necessity =
for the projects that I work on, however, the performance handicaps of =
3.2.x (indexing times and htmerge instability) make using it very time =
consuming for large-scale indexes (over 50,000 documents).  How =
difficult or how far away is the addition of phrase searching to the =
stable release? That is the key feature for several people I have talked =
to that would be the biggest improvement in the stable release. I've =
worked somewhat-extensively with other information retrieval systems - =
would it be easier to use the phrase search code of another public =
system as a template for implementing phrase capability?

I would love to contribute to the development effort if I could get some =
specific direction on what would need changing in htDig to enable =
phrases.

Ravi Starzl
ViWire