Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4956E6322A6 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:11:33 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76987-02 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:11:24 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from frubble.xen.chris-lamb.co.uk (frubble.xen.chris-lamb.co.uk [89.16.166.12]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD95B632223 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:11:24 -0400 (AST) Received: from sam by frubble.xen.chris-lamb.co.uk with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LKDaQ-0003Yf-5r for pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:11:18 +0000 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:11:18 +0000 From: Sam Mason To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Is there a way to do an exact-match search on this list? Message-ID: <20090106151118.GX3008@frubble.xen.chris-lamb.co.uk> References: <04A6DB42D2BA534FAC77B90562A6A03DBF2611@server.rad-con.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <04A6DB42D2BA534FAC77B90562A6A03DBF2611@server.rad-con.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200901/82 X-Sequence-Number: 142167 On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:06:43AM -0500, Rob Richardson wrote: > I just tried to do a search in the archives of this list for ".Net > provider". The search returned results contained "provided" and > "providing". Is there a way to make sure that my searches return only > messages containing strings that exactly match what I'm looking for? would google do what you want? http://www.google.com/search?q=".Net+provider"+site:archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general a few useful variations: ``intext:".net provider" site:archives.postgresql.org'' ``intitle:".net provider" site:archives.postgresql.org'' gleaned from: http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html Sam