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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Jussi Mikkola <[email protected]>
Cc: scott.marlowe <[email protected]>
Cc: 'PostgreSQL General' <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgresql Advocacy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: New PostgreSQL search resource
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:42:15 -0800
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Jussi Mikkola wrote:

> I think most of the people use http://www.postgresql.org/search.cgi


Yep... Supposedly it is being worked on to make it faster.

J




>
> Default settings, search for select distinct returns in about 10 
> minutes, with "You haven't typed any word(s) to search for."
>
> Same query with match full phrase... (I did not wait long enough. But 
> several minutes in any case. Don't know about the result.)
>
> Same query with match full phrase and 7.4 documentation. 2 results in 
> 5 seconds. Results are select into and pg_select.
>
> Could we do something to this search? (Change the defaults, divide it 
> to smaller parts, use different search engine...)
>
> Rgs,
>
> Jussi
>
>
>
>
>
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>
>>> Not really.  with htdig, I can do "select distinct" on the 7.3 docs 
>>> and I get exactly 7 responses back, and they all have select 
>>> followed immediately by distinct, with only space, CR / LF etc in 
>>> between.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> Well, if you search for select distinct... OpenFTS automatically 
>> searches
>> for select & distinct. My search returned:
>>
>> 5 results with the first one being this:
>>
>> http://www.commandprompt.com/community//search.lxp?lxpwrap=734/queries-select-lists.html 
>>
>>
>> Which seems fairly accurate ;). Perhaps a better description of what 
>> the problem actually is or
>> the behavior you are expecting?
>>
>> SIncerely,
>>
>> Joshua D. Drake
>>
>>
>>
>>> And the & symbol josh recommended shows as being ignored, so that 
>>> didn't work either.
>>>
>>> Word combos like "bulk loads" or "run-time configuration" are quite 
>>> handy filters.
>>>  
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>


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