The Suggested Shopping List Problem...
Imagine a web-based shop where users define product filters like: "its red", "its in the kitchen" or "has the word 'auto' on the name"; and every criteria has a weight that contributes to the final...
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Hi, I am having a hard time trying to optimize a **Full Text Search** ( FTS ) on a ~1 billion rows table ( around 18Gb of reserved space used ). The main problem seems the amount of rows returned and...
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