postgres/contrib/fulltextindex/WARNING
Bruce Momjian f68fe6716c In case Florian and I don't finish his changes to this contrib before
beta, at least get this stuff in.

ftipatch.txt - Updates to docs and scripts.  Run in the fulltextindexdir
WARNING - Add to fulltextindex dir
uninstall.sql - Add to fulltextindex dir
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WARNING
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This implementation of full text indexing is very slow and inefficient. It is
STRONGLY recommended that you switch to using contrib/tsearch which offers these
features:
Advantages
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* Actively developed and improved
* Tight integration with OpenFTS (openfts.sourceforge.net)
* Orders of magnitude faster (eg. 300 times faster for two keyword search)
* No extra tables or multi-way joins required
* Select syntax allows easy 'and'ing, 'or'ing and 'not'ing of keywords
* Built-in stemmer with customisable dictionaries (ie. searching for 'jellies' will find 'jelly')
* Stop words automatically ignored
* Supports non-C locales
Disadvantages
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* Only indexes full words - substring searches on words won't work.
eg. Searching for 'burg' won't find 'burger'
Due to the deficiencies in this module, it is quite likely that it will be removed from the standard PostgreSQL distribution in the future.