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Re: SQLite + FTS (full text search)

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On Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:20:31 PM UTC+2, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> Hi,
> On my Debian stable 64-bit system, SQLite3 has FTS (full text search) 
> enabled (although at version 3 rather than the recommended version 4):
> 
> Python 3.2.3 (default, Feb 20 2013, 14:44:27) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
> >>> import sqlite3
> >>> con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
> >>> cur = con.execute("pragma compile_options")
> >>> for row in cur:
> 	print(row)
> ...
> ('ENABLE_FTS3',)
> ...
> But on Windows when I use the official Python 3.3 32-bit binary 
> from www.python.org this is not enabled.
> 
> My guess is that on Debian, the packagers install a full SQLite 3 
> and the Python package uses that. But on Windows I think the Python 
> packagers bundle their own SQLite (quite rightly since it might not 
> already be installed).
> 
> I'd like the Windows binary to include SQLite 3 with FTS4 support, 
> but I don't know how much work that involves or if it would make 
> the Python .msi file too big?
> 
> Anyway, I guess if anyone else is interested in this they 
> could perhaps reply to indicate this?
> If you're curious about the feature, it is documented here:
> 
> http://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html

It is compile time option. 
http://www.sqlite.org/compile.html#enable_fts3
you have to build it with this option enabled.

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SQLite + FTS (full text search) Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com> - 2014-01-23 04:20 -0800
  Re: SQLite + FTS (full text search) Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-01-23 05:24 -0800
    Re: SQLite + FTS (full text search) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-23 13:39 +0000
      Re: SQLite + FTS (full text search) Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-01-23 05:49 -0800
      Re: SQLite + FTS (full text search) Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-23 07:23 -0800
    Re: SQLite + FTS (full text search) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-24 01:13 +1100
    Re: SQLite + FTS (full text search) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-01-23 19:59 -0500
  RE: SQLite + FTS (full text search) "Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale@activenetwerx.com> - 2014-01-23 13:23 +0000
  Re: SQLite + FTS (full text search) Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> - 2014-01-23 14:09 +0000
    Re: SQLite + FTS (full text search) Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com> - 2014-01-23 06:39 -0800

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