[ckan-dev] solr

Thu May 19 09:29:28 UTC 2011

Hi Seb,

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at okfn.org> wrote:
> I was wondering, because supporting *both* postgres FTS *and* solr is
> a bit tricky (in fact, we're effectively not supporting both, as the
> faceting stuff has only been implemented for installations with solr)
>
> We're in a funny half-way place right now as the Solr stuff needs more
> hand-holding and documentation to allow people to easily run with it,
> but with postgres you don't get our full functionality.

Thats very true and my opinion on it would be to drop Postgres FTS
support. Solr search is excellent and since search is a core feature
of CKAN (until we've all figured out what "data collaboration" really
means its not inaccurate to say it is *the* core) I think the
additional overhead of deploying a Java-based service might be
justified. Removing Psql-FTS would drive down the complexity of the
search code significantly.

This certainly needs some more discussion but I'd like this thread to
end in voting or a BDFL judgement.

- Friedrich