Re: bugs and bug tracking

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 03:06:50PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Nathan Wagner (nw+pg(at)hydaspes(dot)if(dot)org) wrote:
> > I have added full text searching to my tracker. I only index the first
> > 50 KB of each message. There's apparently a one MB limit on that
> > anyway, which a few messages exceed. I figure anything important is
> > probably in the first 50KB. I could be wrong. I could re-index fairly
> > easily. It seems to work pretty well.
>
> Note that we have FTS for the -bugs, and all the other, mailing lists..

True, but that finds emails. The search I have finds bugs (well, bug reports
anyway). Specifically, I have the following function:

create or replace function bugvector(bugid bigint)
returns tsvector language 'sql' as $$
select tsvagg(
setweight(to_tsvector(substr(body(msg), 1, 50*1024)), 'D')
||
setweight(to_tsvector(header_value(msg, 'Subject')), 'C')
)
from emails
where bug = $1
$$ strict;

which, as you can see, collects into one tsvector all the emails associated
with that particular bug. So a search hit is for the whole bug. There's
probably some search artifacts here. I suspect a bug with a long email thread
will be ranked higher than a one with a short thread. Perhaps that's ok
though.

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nw