Re: [drupal-devel] slow queries?

steven probably understands this better than anyone? can anything be done here, steven?

The only problem I know of is leading wildcards in search terms. These prevent the index on the word column from being used, hence a full table scan is done. This problem has gotten worse since the "try leading wildcards automatically if nothing was found" patch. I have some architectural changes for search.module in my head which might help with this (though the main point is to introduce phrase searching), but I won't have time for this until my exams end. Steven Wittens