[Xapian-discuss] Search queries with wildcards

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Tue Dec 14 15:41:00 GMT 2004


On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:11:54PM +0000, James Aylett wrote:
> This can all be done with Omega, except possibly custom stoplists on
> indexing - I think that is still compiled in.

Omega doesn't stopword on indexing at all - it's done at search time.
This avoids problems with stopping useful words, and allows stopwording
to be disabled for phrases.

Stopwording at index time can reduce the index size quite a bit though,
so if that's important it's a reasonable approach.

Cheers,
    Olly



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