Self-Introduction: Michael Leupold

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:35:05 +0100 Michael Leupold <lemma at confuego.org>
wrote:
> Lately our Bugzilla has been hit by some performance issues when
> doing substring searches (using MySQL, often tens of seconds before
> the search finishes)

	If you're using the built-in fulltext in Bugzilla 3.0, it's
slow. You should try Bugzilla 3.2.

> One thing I came up with is extending the search mechanism to allow
> for external fulltext search engines to be implemented and used.
> [snip]

	We've talked about that before, but we didn't do it because a
separate fulltext engine can only do searches on fulltext, not fulltext
+ normal fields. So it'd be hard to implement, say, boolean charts
using that, in any efficient way.

> - Define a new Hook so supplemental search modules can be defined in 
> extensions.

	That'd be handy. We were looking into ways to do that--we might
want more re-arch of Search.pm before we actually add it upstream,
though.

> Unfortunately my knowledge of Perl is currently pretty limited as I
> only started last week. I do however hope that I'll be soon able to
> submit a patch for discussion/review.

	Cool. Feel free to get in touch with us on IRC.

	-Max
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