SQLite + FTS (full text search)

[Asaf Las]

On Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:20:31 PM UTC+2, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> Hi,
> On my Debian stable 64-bit system, SQLite3 has FTS (full text search) 
> enabled (although at version 3 rather than the recommended version 4):
> 
> Python 3.2.3 (default, Feb 20 2013, 14:44:27) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
> >>> import sqlite3
> >>> con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
> >>> cur = con.execute("pragma compile_options")
> >>> for row in cur:
> 	print(row)
> ...
> ('ENABLE_FTS3',)
> ...
> But on Windows when I use the official Python 3.3 32-bit binary 
> from www.python.org this is not enabled.
> 
> My guess is that on Debian, the packagers install a full SQLite 3 
> and the Python package uses that. But on Windows I think the Python 
> packagers bundle their own SQLite (quite rightly since it might not 
> already be installed).
> 
> I'd like the Windows binary to include SQLite 3 with FTS4 support, 
> but I don't know how much work that involves or if it would make 
> the Python .msi file too big?
> 
> Anyway, I guess if anyone else is interested in this they 
> could perhaps reply to indicate this?
> If you're curious about the feature, it is documented here:
> 
> http://www.sqlite.org/fts3.html

It is compile time option. 
http://www.sqlite.org/compile.html#enable_fts3
you have to build it with this option enabled.