Re: Fwd: [DOCS] Search bug

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: John Hansen <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fwd: [DOCS] Search bug
Date: 2005-08-23 01:04:06
Message-ID: 20050823010406.GL17203@pervasive.com
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Hrm, thought I replied to this but maybe my cat ate it...

ISTM it would be good to have either an advanced search or search help
link that contained info about stuff like this.

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 02:34:34PM +1000, John Hansen wrote:
> Try using double quotes.
>
> "pg_stat_activity" "current_query"
>
> ... John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > [mailto:pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Robert Treat
> > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 10:00 AM
> > To: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: [pgsql-www] Fwd: [DOCS] Search bug
> >
> >
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> > ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
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> > Subject: [DOCS] Search bug
> > Date: Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:42
> > From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
> > To: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
> >
> > I know this might be more www than docs, but I'm not on that list...
> >
> > It appears that the search box uses % and _ as wildcards.
> > This is fine (though we should make mention of it since
> > people are probably more used to * and ? in search boxes,
> > even if they are DBAs), but the problem is it doesn't seem to
> > allow escaping them. For example, search on 'pg_stat_activity
> > current_query'.
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