Re: search.postgresql.org

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 02:24 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> >> I was looking at our search configuration and I noted that out of a
> >> weight of 100 we are only weighing archives at 50 and varlena at 25.
> >> That seems a little low as archives is the primary source of pratical
> >> and real world issues and varlena is a great resource.
> >
> > Um, what other resources are rated higher?  If you'll pardon my
> > ignorance, what other resources is the search engine considering at all?
>
> And maybe a short explanation of what these 'weights' are all about?  Does
> that just mean that when i search for something, archives results will
> always preceed varlena's?  And, if so, and we are only doing archives vs
> varlena, as long as archives is weighted higher then varlena, does it
> matter what the weights are?  Could be 1 + 2, no?

That's right, the siteweights are just for making sure results from one
site is displayed before another.

A search on search.postgresql.org/archives.search ONLY considers the
archives anyways.

search.postgresql.org/www.search, however, returns results from all the
indexed sites, in order of relevance, with priority according to the
siteweights.

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