Andre Engels wrote:
Does this mean that we will NOT get full text search back soon? That would be a shame. If it is indeed the case that with another DB server we will still have locking problems with searches, we might want another architecture, with a dedicated search (plus several other functions, such as special pages and SQL queries, perhaps even Whatlinkshere) machine, which gets its database updated only once per second/minute/hour/whatever rather than in real time.
I'm very interested in this, too.
If for whatever reason it seems mysql's built-in fulltext search is not going to work for us, we could pretty easily come up with some kind of alternative, I think. We could parse the database daily and generate a very fast btree dbm file, for example.
--Jimbo