Re: [ams@oryx.com: [ANNOUNCE] Archiveopteryx 1.10

On Wed, 20 Sep 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 Joshua D. Drake
>> Sent: 19 September 2006 23:12
>> To: Jim C. Nasby
>> Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] [ams(at)oryx(dot)com: [ANNOUNCE]
>> Archiveopteryx 1.10 released]
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>> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>>> So... since we all *love* the current archive engine (and
>> it's search)
>>> so much...
>>>
>>> What about switching over to this? It appears it should
>> work fine with
>>> majordomo, and I'd bet we could get someone from
>> Archiveopteryx to help
>>> with this.
>>
>> It also has a Tsearch2 interface :)
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> Meaning what exactly? I'm sure any one of us is capable of writing a
> small script that could catch the mail messages from each list, and
> store them in a tsearch enabled database. The difficult bit is adding a
> good *web* interface to it with all the appropriate thread links and
> index pages, and without breaking all those pesky legacy URLs. There are
> also tens of thousands of documents in the search index that aren't
> emails that would also need to be handled.
>
> If you want to move to a new tsearch search engine (which I'm not
> against btw) then using our existing crawler script as a basis for a
> generic indexer would bypass all those problems, leaving just a web
> interface to tsearch to build.

Stupid question here, but haven't Oleg and crew not already done this?

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