Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073B62E011A for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:41:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 44334-01-7 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:41:37 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 564422E30BF for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:41:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2CFfLFo019585; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:41:22 -0400 (EDT) To: "Dave Page" cc: "Alvaro Herrera" , "Bruce Momjian" , "PostgreSQL www" , "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" Subject: Re: Email not searchable in our archives In-reply-to: <937d27e10803120825k67fc19c1h27f977a8038dfdd7@mail.gmail.com> References: <200803112135.m2BLZ6625071@momjian.us> <20080312130902.GC4926@alvh.no-ip.org> <937d27e10803120714h21f1f661s657fad641f35c3d5@mail.gmail.com> <937d27e10803120825k67fc19c1h27f977a8038dfdd7@mail.gmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to "Dave Page" message dated "Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:25:00 -0000" Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:41:21 -0400 Message-ID: <19584.1205336481@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/259 X-Sequence-Number: 14378 "Dave Page" writes: > My best guess is simply that the indexer failed for some time and > noone noticed for a few weeks. By the time it was re-run, some > messages that it had missed were outside the timeframe that an > incremental crawl would have picked up (the current, plus last month). > Thoughts? That would explain a contiguous range of messages that were not indexed, but is that what we have? I think the thing to do before you destroy the old index is make a list of which messages were indexed and which weren't. regards, tom lane