Torsten Neuer (tneuer@inwise.de)
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 11:05:11 +0200
According to loic@ceic.com:
>Brian Bray writes:
> >
> > I would like to use htdig to search through a mysql database that I
> > have. I've thought about exporting records to files then letting htdig
> > have at them but I could have millions of records soon and that would
> > become very inefficient very fast.
> >
> > >From what I've been able to gather there is a database abstraction layer
> > in htdig but its not fully implemented or something? Has anyone been able
> > to hack htdig to work with mySQL?
> >
>
> There is no tight coupling between MySQL and htdig at present. As far
>as I know, the only way to do it at present is to dump the MySQL database
>and index it.
> In 3.2 however, the indexing will be a library that you'll be able to
>use on its own (hopefully :-). You will therefore be able to add a hook
>for each insert/delete sql order so that indexing is done in real time. I
>don't think there will be native support for indexing MySQL database
>within htdig in 3.2.
> The database layer of htdig, although quite nice, is not tailored for
>SQL databases. I think it's not ready for use in this case.
> You might be interested by the mysql++ version 1.0 found in the Contrib
>directory of www.mysql.com. It is a c++ library that provides a nice
>abstract layer to SQL databases.
There is still the possibility of writing an external parser for that ;-)
hth,
Torsten
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