Re: Postgresql.org search engine.

Well, subject is easy enough to implement, as the subject is also the
page title, and we can as it is, limit searches to the title meta tag.


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Oleg Bartunov [mailto:oleg ( at ) sai ( dot ) msu ( dot ) su]
>> Sent: 30 January 2004 19:52
>> To: Dave Page
>> Cc: josh ( at ) agliodbs ( dot ) com; pgsql-www ( at ) postgresql ( dot ) org
>> Subject: RE: [pgsql-www] Postgresql.org search engine.
>>
>>
>> This is what you need to look for to optimize search (limit
>> search region by date period). Default search should use
>> something like search last year documents.
>
>Oh, date is not a problem. I just haven't put it on the form yet. It's
>the metadata like author, subject, listname etc. that will take more
>work (though the latter is handled quite well using a subset
>restriction).
>
>Regards, Dave.


And in reply to the following:


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy ( at ) postgresql ( dot ) org]
>> Sent: 30 January 2004 20:43
>> To: Dave Page
>> Cc: Oleg Bartunov; josh ( at ) agliodbs ( dot ) com; pgsql-www ( at ) postgresql ( dot ) org
>> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Postgresql.org search engine.
>>
>>
>> k, before I regenerate the lists, is this stuff you want me
>> to add to the META DATA part?
>
>There's not much point I don't think. It's the XML feed that might make
>use of it, not the standard indexer.
>
>What I really want to see is the absolute bare minimum in the msg files
>(not even the titles that are there at the moment - speacking of which,
>might be worth including them as a php var we can pickup from the
>top_config.php)  - as per the example I emailed you. Then, we should be
>able to do anything by editting the header and footer php include files.
>
>Regards, Dave.

The standard indexer can too be reconfigured to take advantage of other (non-standard) meta tags, just as easyly as the
xmlfeed code can. 

Regards,

John