squatter running longer than 24 hours

[David Lang]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Rob Mueller wrote:

>> squatter would really benefit from incremental updates. At the moment a
>> single new message in a mailbox containing 20k messages causes it to read
>> in all the existing messages in order to regenerate the index.
>
> We spoke to Ken about this ages back, and even offered to pay for the work
> to make it happen, but it was just around the time CMU hired him, so it
> never actually happened.... pity. It would be nice to be able to dedicate a
> couple of weeks to rummage around in there and actually make it happen...

postgres has full-text search capabilities at acceptable performance on very 
large databases, their code is BSD so anything relavent coudl be merged into 
cyrus. it may be worth someone looking into their logic.

David Lang