Re: Our archive searching stinks

This is all great news. Thanks.

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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > OK, I have finally decided that our archive searching stinks. I have
> > emails in my mailbox that don't appear in the archives.
> >
> > Our main site, http://archives.postgresql.org/ doesn't archive the
> > 'patches' list. (It isn't listed on the main site, and I can't find
> > postings via searching.) Also, why does it open a separate window for
> > each email. That doesn't make any sense to me.
> >
> > My backup is Google,
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=comp.databases.postgresql,
> > but that seems to be missing emails too. Our email/news link regulary
> > drops messages and therefore Google can't see them.
> >
> > It isn't one thing, but a general lack of quality in this area. Heck,
> > we had no usable archives for _months_. Is this really only important
> > to me?
> >
> > Oh, I see FTS is back working at http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/. I
> > like the output format, but all three are give me different results.
> > However, fts is invisible because I can't find a link to it from
> > anywhere on our web pages.
> >
> > I guess I am asking:
> >
> > Can our main archive start doing the patches list?
>
> Yes ...
>
> > Can it stop opening a new window for every email?
>
> Yes ...
>
> > Can we find out why the email/news gateway drops messages?
>
> Email->News gateways aren't the best to start with, since they rely on far
> too many variables ... main one coming to mind is if the news server is
> down for any length of time ... this should be improved now, as we moved
> it over to the new server pretty much as soon as it came online, and so
> far has been *alot* more stable there then on the old one ...
>
> > Can we link to the fts site?
>
> Should be, but it was down for a long time there, and nobody informed that
> it was back up and running ... I have to talk to Theo about moving it tho,
> since when we got the postgresql.org server upgraded to 4gig (from a
> measely 512MB), I moved everything except for fts to v7.2 with a 1.5gig
> shared memory buffer :) disk I/O still sucks, mind you, but nothing I can
> do about *that* at this time ...
>
>

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