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Is there a way to create distributed inverted index?

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Description

I want to create fts index on big corpus. but it seems that currently we cannot create an index that contains multiple index files. does anyone have any suggestion? or I want to create a PR to support it.

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The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. First investigate the existing full-text-search index implementation and how it handles index files, then define the distributed-index design and verify that a large corpus can be indexed across multiple files.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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