Re: [Tracker] wildcard search incomplete?

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 10:57 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 05/10/09 08:17, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I see wildcard (*) only cares if missing chars are after search string
> > and not before. That means in aaabbbccc, if I did *bbb* and *ccc
> > there'll be no results. At least that's according to
> > tracker-search{,-tool}. Is it a simple fix or am I missing something?
>
> Prefix matching is only implemented at this point, we can implement 
> suffix matching too, but I am not sure if/when that will be. There are 
> certain speed issues with that AFAIK.
>
> JÃrg, any comment to add here?

Suffix matching would be possible to implement but it would require an
additional index. I don't think it's worth adding it, though, suffix
matching doesn't sound like a primary use case.

It's not planned at the moment to implement the more interesting infix
search *bbb* as it would either require an additional large index or it
would be slow, unless there is a magic solution I'm not aware of ;)

JÃrg