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Pg's built in full text search works amazingly well and has all the smarts. It's also faster than lucene.



Huh? Please come up with about ten references (one isn't enough) to back up those claims.


I do not think so, but it might be after the GIN optimization work is committed. After it they beat Sphinx in several benchmarks.

http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/talks/Next%20generati...


I didn't say it was faster than sphinx (yet) but it is definitely faster than lucene in all the benchmarks I've thrown at it.




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