Re: Web team meeting minutes

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Dave Page wrote:

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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> [mailto:pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Oleg Bartunov
>> Sent: 14 July 2006 13:05
>> To: Magnus Hagander
>> Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Web team meeting minutes
>>
>> I didn't participate in web-team meeting, so I'm adding:
>>
>> use tsearch2 for full text searching over web-site.
>>
>> Arguments: it's online index, it's has built-in support for
>> structured documents (4 currently, but it's enough for PostgreSQL site
>> and documentation), it's configurable and could be used in
>> web-site engine.
>> I'd not move mailing list archive search right now, but after
>> 8.2 release
>> with GIN support I see no problem to this.
>>
>> I'm not available for web-development, but could help with
>> configuring and
>> share my experience.
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> Hi Oleg,
>
> We can't add that to the minutes as it's not something we discussed.

Oh, I'm sorry

>
> As a separate issue though, perhaps you could propose it, along with
> reasons why we should do it (ie. What benefit is there over the current
> solution), and what would actually be required to get it going if we
> decided to go that way?

I just wanted to say, that current search is not designed for Web site indexing.
Search, for example, latest news title "Open Technology Group, Inc. announces
plPHP training" and you'll get nothing ! And will not be searched until new
index gets build. This is exactly why we've developed tsearch2 - online
indexing. If documents are in database, then requirement is just setup
tsearch2, if not - then you need sort of openfts.

Regards,
Oleg
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Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
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