Re: PostgreSQL documentation search engine for Firefox

On Tuesday 15 January 2008 16:54, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> Gabriele Bartolini escribió:
> >>>   One thing. My friend Marco Nenciarini sent me this message
> >>> regarding the search engine: he searched for 'pg_shadow' and this
> >>> link came up as a recommendation, but it is broken:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/catalog-pg-shadow.html
> >>
> >> Wow -- why is it recommended?  pg_shadow stopped existing on 8.1, so
> >> it's almost three releases out of date.  Is the search engine using the
> >> 8.0 index?
> >

Understand that the recommendations are keyword based... ie if you search on
pg_shadow, it's quite likely you would want the above page.

> > no I don't think so iirc the "recommended" stuff is actually coming from
> > the docbot search database (ie the database of the irc bot). The
> > websearch should be fully up2date but I'm not sure when the docbot
> > database was last synced ...
>

not a question of sync issue... the bot on irc was still using that link as of
this afternoon (when I saw the initial post in this thread on advocacy and
then updated the irc bot)

> Yup, that's correct.  And the fulltext stuff certainly seems to be doing
> things right.
>
> Rob - whatever happened to setting up a scheduled job to sync the docbot
> stuff?
>

Let's pretend I was waiting for the move to the new server and the 8.3 updates
to get done. Now that we have it, I'll see what I can do to push that
forward.

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Robert Treat
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