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		sams99 on Oct 28, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On Stack Overflow's recent battles with the .NET G... The issue popped up once in a hundred times, in general people do not notice. Tags are stored both in a posttags table and free text. Fts is faster for many queries.

sams99 on Oct 28, 2011 [–]

I do admit it surprised me that we stored tags in an fts field when I started, but after a few months it made quite a bit of sense, the queries are just way faster.

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