Hi, i am not aware if whether or not Discourse uses sphinx for its search function http://sphinxsearch.com but it is very powerful and light. I know on my forum which uses Vbulletin, i had to integrate the sphynix search which works really well than the Mysql default search which comes with VB =) b/…

Hi, why not Sphinx search ? I am not familiar with PostgreSQL but would it not face issues with big communities and high activity? If so, then i recommend Sphinx, it is light and doesn’t add stress on the server. It is great actually =) Is there any future plan for it? allowing two options may be ?…

I understand that for somebody coming from MySQL world notion that you can use database search facilities exclusively may sound… crazy, but thats not fair “standard” to judge other database engines fulltext search features.

Well, like i said, i am not familiar with it =) i don’t know if it will perform well under big communities. I would like to hear @codinghorror opinion on this and whether there is a future plan for it. It doesn’t hurt to have a setting in the admin page to choose the search type that you like to use…

People have been complaining that the search isn’t quite up to snuff recently, maybe this should be looked into? Here’s some stuff I’ve found so far: http://sphinxsearch.com/wiki/doku.php?id=sphinx_docs https://rubygems.org/gems/sphinx

The immediate issue is not search quality. The amount of space we use to display search results is just too tight, we need a full page “topic list” like search results page. After that is done and if that fails we can discuss alternative approaches.

Just throwing this out there for some fun, but what if the search results were displayed in a way that would allow the user to still navigate around but having full search results displayed? Quick example: [image] Basically, the search bar and results pop out on a side panel that can be opened a…

I see the issue as being the lack of excerpts, not the results pane being too small.

This looks like a better idea and style wise could be integrated well =)

You don’t think “lack of excerpts” and “results pane being small” are related? Maybe a little?

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rafalp (rafalp) February 8, 2014, 1:38am 2

AFAIK Discourse uses PostgreSQL’s superawesome text search features:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-not-support-mysql/2568/3

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