meilisearch/MeiliSearch

Add more details in the FST building progress

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#5,591 opened on May 26, 2025

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Description

For now the progress update only notify the start and the end of the FST building process, but there could be more updates to return, like:

  • how many words do we have to build
  • how many words we built already

Originally posted by @dureuill in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/pull/5541#discussion_r2101825335

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Research direction
Examine the existing progress reporting code for FST building and identify where to add intermediate progress updates for word counts.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
backend
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Feature
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2
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Half day
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Active
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Clear
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RustFamiliarity with finite state transducers
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60