Posted 4 years ago #
To have a decent search system, one have to install the search reloaded plugin and it creates a full text index. To have the related posts, the relative plugin create another full text index.
May be a native full text index in WP, with an improved search already working, can be useful.
The full text index can be used from other plugins too.
I could not find any related posts plugin that creates a fulltext index. Got a link?
But, I think the main reason it's not in core is that full text searches only work in MySQL if you use MyISAM tables. Search Reloaded forces the posts table to MyISAM to do this. Also, Full Text search is a MySQL specific thing. WordPress tries to avoid those when possible.
Posted 4 years ago #
Surely a full text index means to use mysql with specific table engines. I agree. But, is WP team planning to make WP work with other databases? I think WP can stay with mysql forever... WP is not a sophisticated CMS which may need innodb tables for a fully trasactional support (innodb tables are slow too).
But I never looked so deeply into WP code, may be the DB is fully abstracted to be portale to other dbms. If so, to differentiate from one db to another can be very complicated. If not and if WP doesn't need all the transactional stuff a full text index can be very useful!
(the realted post plugin I have - a modification of the original, may e not in the repository - create a full text index)
But, is WP team planning to make WP work with other databases?
They're not ruling it out, although there's a bit of a ways to go to abstract all the database functionality into one class.
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