Subject: Re: Archives cleaned up ... but not regenerated yet ...

From: "Dave Page" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 13:20:25 -0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Bartunov [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: 02 February 2004 13:13
> To: Marc G. Fournier
> Cc: Josh Berkus; [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Archives cleaned up ... but not 
> regenerated yet ...
> 
> Marc or Dave,
> 
> is there possibility to sort search results not by relevance, 
> but date ?
> Since there is no possibility to restrict date range, 
> sometimes sorting by date is much better ! For example, try 
> search 'better configuration options for sort memory' 
> (january-febraury
> thread) and you'll see very bad result list (this is also 
> question to aspseek ranking function !) even if you restrict 
> mailing list to -hackers.

This is possible - as I said last week I just haven't added the date
options to the forms yet...

The options supported if you want to play are (just add them to the
URL):

dt=back | er | range
Type of time limit. See below. 
dp=date
If 'dt' is 'back', that means you want to limit result to recent pages,
so you specify that "recentness" in date value, that is specified in the
form xxxA[yyyB...], there xxx, yyy are numbers (which can also be
negative), and A, B can be one of the following (the letters below are
the same as in strptime(3) and strftime(3) functions): 
Character Meaning

------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------
 
s second
M minute
h hour
d day
m month
y year

Examples of values for dp parameter: 

String Meaning Value, s

4h30m 2 hours and 30 minutes 16200
1Y6m-15d 1 year and six month minus 15 days  45792000
1h-60M+1s 1 hour minus 60 minutes plus 1 second  1

Note that ASPseek do not use minutes and seconds of document's last
modification date, so specifying something more precise than hour is
useless (but still allowed). 

dx=1 | -1
If dt is er (which is short for newer/older), that means the search will
be limited to pages newer or older than date given. Parameter dx is
newer/older flag, value 1 means "newer" or "after", and value -1 means
"older" or "before". The actual date is separated into dd, dm, dy fields
as follows. 
dd=number
Day of month (1...31) 
dm=number
Month (0 - January, 1 - February, .., 11 - December) 
dy=number
Year (four digits, for example 2001) 
db=dd/mm/yyyy
de=dd/mm/yyyy
If dt is range, that means search within given range of dates.
Parameters db and de are used in this case and stands for beginning and
ending date, respectively. Each date is in the form dd/mm/yyyy, there dd
is day of month number (1...31), mm is month number (1...12), and yyyy
is four-digits year. 
fr=value
to=value
These parameters are passed to s.cgi in subsequent search pages; they
contains date and time in internal format used by s.cgi. 

Regards, Dave.