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From: John Hansen <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Can't get all search results
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 01:26:48 +1000
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 09:01 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> John Hansen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 22:12 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I can't get all May 2006 search results to show up on:
> > > 
> > > 	http://archives.postgresql.org/
> > > 
> > > If I search for "semaphore", I see only one entry for May 2006, while
> > > this shows three emails with that title from the patches list for May
> > > 7-8, 2006:
> > > 
> > > 	http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-05/index.php
> > > 
> > 
> > Aye, I'm aware of a problem with the sort by date functionality,... if
> > you look closer you will see that they appear among the last few
> > results.
> 
> Oh, I definately see some strange date ordering on the last page.  Can
> you explain how something as simple as a date sort could not work 100%?

Sure, the function that converts the webserver's response (the
last_modified header returned by a HEAD request to be precise) to a unix
timestamp, is by nature, somewhat uhmm,. unstable

'by nature' since there is no standard, an attempt has been made to
cover the most common response formats.

... John

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