[ckan-dev] solr

Thu May 19 10:03:12 UTC 2011

On 19 May 2011 10:29, Friedrich Lindenberg
<friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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)

Ok, usual devil's advocate stuff...

It feels like a fair bit of work to get the whole dev team and all
clients onto SOLR.

What's the problem with the status quo of having faceting as an
optional feature?

Seb and Friedrich, do you have we got a new feature or requirement
that you have in mind? If there is no other agenda or plan here then I
see no benefit to this proposed work.

David

>> 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
>
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