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agatlin's picture

Newbie SOLR Questions

We are hoping to use SOLR in a couple of non-standard implementations, and I just have a few questions.

  1. If we want to index all of the documents in a specific file directory (e.g. TIFF images of scanned documents), can we do this directly with SOLR, or do we need Nutch? (I realize TIFFS are quite legacy but in this instance conversion to PDF is not an option.)

  2. If there are specific documents on a remote site we want to index with SOLR (again, specific TIFF documents), what is the best way to accomplish this. (We have the specific URLs for these documents.)

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DB support as contribute: is it a good idea?

Abstract

Drupal 6.0 is revamped with Schema API, so what's next for Drupal 7.x? PDO for sure! With this powerful data-access abstraction layer, workload will much reduced for DB abstraction layer designers and developers, and finally benefit our contribute developers and end users.

By the way, together with the decision of Drupal 7.x + PDO, there is also some voice about moving PostgreSQL (and so other potential databases support, e.g. Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, etc) support away from core, but contribute; on the other hand, add official SQLite support into Drupal core, together with MySQL.

Is this really a good idea? Or even if it is possible? As an existing Drupal + PostgreSQL users, what will this affect your daily work? As a potential customer of Drupal + Oracle/DB2/MSSQL/etc, is this a good new for you, or just an evil? I would like to provide some brief idea for you within this article.

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Ready for Testing: New DB2 Driver for Drupal

After 4 days (!?) development, a new DB2 driver for Drupal 6.x is now ready for testing. It takes IBM's D5 DB2 implementation as base reference, and reuse almost all Oracle driver for Drupal 6.x progress for overcoming DB2-specific limitations.

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