Re: Better Archives?

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > One thing I've noticed lately is that our archives are extremely hard to
> > search ...
>
> Which archives are you using?
>
> Oleg Bartunov &co provide a very nice search engine at
> http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/
>

Indeed, there is a very few links to fts.postgresql.org. I think it
could be represented a little bit better.

> I frequently also use Geocrawler's archive at
> http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Databases/
> though this does not cover all the PG lists.
>
> I tend to use the mhonarc archives only when I want to browse by
> date or by thread, not for searches.

Tom,

we'd be glad to know what feature/design we need to add/modify to
fts.postgresql.org. I think we already have support for browsing
by date/thread.

btw, I have a statistics of search queries on fts.postgresql.org.
Anybody interested ?

Here is a top queries:307 odbc203 windows202 replication177 balancing165 jdbc 93 blob 77 xml 76 perl 70 kylix 68 php 61
re:[general] databases compared at zend.com 56 zipcode 53 odbc driver 52 cygwin 46 stored procedure 41 jdbc driver 41
gist39 pgaccess 38 setof
 


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