Search Backends with Small Servers

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@roberto.rosario

Please bear in mind that while Mayan can work for home and personal use, and run on small hardware that has never been its primary target. Mayan works the way it does because it favors automation and scalability targeting millions of documents.

Understood! Kind of like Mayan is an F1 race car, and while you could drive it to work your better off in something better suited. That said, however with a few tweaks and understanding how cool would it be to pull up in front of your co-workers in an F1… Joking aside, I do think as long as expectation are set and some tweaking/documentation it can work for the home use server. That’s my mission and I will try to document as I go in my Mayan@Home journey.

@roberto.rosario

For the absolute best indexing performance use the database as the search provider. The database does not requires indexing updates.

So with that in mind, I wanted to try that. so I changed the search backend inside of my environment file (.env)

...
# inside your .env file
MAYAN_SEARCH_BACKEND=mayan.apps.dynamic_search.backends.django.DjangoSearchBackend
MAYAN_SEARCH_DISABLE_SIMPLE_SEARCH=true
...

I did not see an option to "Reindex search backend” under tools. I did verify under settings that the changes where effective.