New module Search Index Options significantly reduces the dataset table size

By AltaGrade on 24 Mar 2018 at 22:51 UTC

Hello everyone!

I am not sure if this forum is the right place to make an announcement about new module, but let me try, since I am already typing here ;)

There are number of modules which try to output search results restricting per content types, but they all deal with already generated search index, which sometimes can grow really large.

Please find a light utility module Search Index Options that takes over the core search module's work at very early stage to index only those content types which is specifically chosen by Drupal site admin.

Everybody might want to have Search Index module enabled regardless if they restrict or not any content from indexing, because unlike the core search module it also provides the detailed and useful search index statistics per content type as shown on the second screenshot on https://www.drupal.org/project/search_index.

Thanks for your attention!

Comments

I've announced modules here

Jaypan commented 24 March 2018 at 23:14

I've announced modules here myself.

Nice idea for a module. I'll likely use it at some time... if you make a D8 version :) I am not creating new sites on D7 anymore.

Thanks Jay! We will try to

AltaGrade commented 24 March 2018 at 23:19

Thanks Jay! We will try to roll out D8 version some time soon.

BTW, Jay, any chance you want

AltaGrade commented 26 March 2018 at 09:15

BTW, Jay, any chance you want to get it working for D8 and become a co-maintainer?

Unfortunately I’m way behind

Jaypan commented 26 March 2018 at 09:21

Unfortunately I’m way behind on the issue queues for my own modules, so it would be irresponsible for me to take on another one at the moment. If I can free up some time in the future I’ll get back to you on that.

Understood. Thanks for the

AltaGrade commented 26 March 2018 at 09:23

Understood. Thanks for the update!

Problem with "Serch Index" table

SEINEN commented 9 February 2019 at 16:45

Godaddy has canceled access to my database since it has more than 1 Million lines.

Looking on to My Squl, "Search Index" has more than 700k lines. Does your module solve the problem?

It will definitely help your

AltaGrade commented 10 February 2019 at 17:52

It will definitely help your case if you limit content types. Why don't you just give it a try on your dev environment first to see the difference?!

This is just to update that

AltaGrade commented 5 April 2019 at 20:06

This is just to update that after one year of production use, the module matured to incorporate number of significant improvements as, for example, opting in for or out from search indexing on node level.

D8 version

jeromewiley commented 16 September 2020 at 01:51

Altagrade,

Thanks for this tremendous contribution to the Drupal community. Do you know if there is any update on a possible D8 version of this module? Or perhaps an existing D8 module that would allow excluding entire content types from being indexed?

Thanks!