[Dovecot] Search for (any of) multiple terms slow

[Timo Sirainen]

On Aug 13, 2008, at 3:25 AM, Patrick Nagel wrote:

> this may be an obvious logical problem I'm not aware of, which  
> cannot be solved
> any more efficiently... but maybe it's just a bug or there is  
> potential for
> optimisation in Dovecot (or Thunderbird?).
>
> When searching for multiple terms at once ("any of") with  
> Thunderbird/Dovecot
> (using FTS Squat indexes), it takes much longer (not double the  
> time, or a bit
> more than that, but really much, much longer) than when I search for  
> only one term.

Yea, OR isn't supported by FTS plugin yet.. I had hoped no-one would  
notice it ;) I guess I should do something about it. Requires a lot  
more complexity to the code though..

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