Re: Mailing lists archive search

On 11 Sep 2002, Roland Roberts wrote:

> >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>
>     Bruce> Can anyone tell how terrible our search archives are?
>
> Are you asking for testimonials?
>
> I tried searching the archives for hints to a couple of problems I'm
> having and gave up after wasting over an hour.  Message subjects are
> insufficient to judge the pertinence of a search match and the long
> format just shows the top of the page.

Agreed. Developing fts.postgresql.org we've kept this in mind and search
results provided with text fragments included query words.
Unfortunately, we have no time and resources to keep mailing list
archive (fts.postgresql.org) responsive. There are no technological problems.
I still hope to find a server for this service.

>
> The problem seems to be the indexing engine is indexing the HMTL text
> instead of the mail message.
>
> It was easier to just ask here....
>
> roland
>

    Regards,
        Oleg
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