text indexing on Linux?

[Dave Cramer]

Well, postgresql has a builtin text search, so I'm not convinced that
grep is actually faster.

Dave Cramer


On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:31 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Suppose all your files are text files and contain 10 words max.  What
> program would you use to index them based on contents?  That is, given a
> set of words, it has to return the name of files that contain those
> words.
>
> I know of "updatedb" and "locate", but they index only filenames, not
> the content.  For my need, "grep" is still faster than any SQL solution,
> but I'm curious as to what is the correct approach.
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