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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It seems like if you're going to allow subscribing by tag you could
> equally easily subscribe by full-text search and that would be very
> close to subscribing to a search.

You need an inverse index: 'what subscriptions match this bug' and
'what subscriptions match this message' sort of thing. Sadly our
search infrastructure doesn't support that AFAICT.

So its very much not equally easy.

-Rob