Re: Let's play bash the search engine

On 12/19/06, Shane Ambler <pgsql(at)007marketing(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > I echo Thomas' request to have docs limited to a version (or, better,
> > most recent). Perhaps archived docs should be searched via a separate
> > page entirely.
>
> +1 there - current docs should be searched unless you specify all/older

count me in too...

I reckon the old search showed 3-4 lines in the 'preview' of the
> listing, now we only get 1 which sometimes wraps partially onto 2.
> Personally I preferred having 3-4 lines in the results - it can be
> easier to pick out the page that you are searching for without going
> there.

same sentiments

One thing that I have seen on a few searches (eg. yahoo cached pages) is
> when you follow a link it then highlights the search criteria on the
> page. Would be a nice feature to quickly find the search result on the
> destination page.

+1

I found a little error in the page coding calculations -
>
> Search for create
> it states "Pages 1-20 of more than 1000." - that's ok
> if you go to page 50 you get "Pages 981-1000 of more than 1000." - fine
> then on page 51 you get "Your search for create returned no hits."
>
> search for 'select' or 'update' gets the same thing. It would seem that
> you have a 'limit 1000' which gives the 'more than 1000' in the hits
> description but it generates an extra page (51) that tries to fetch
> 1001-1020

Or is it possible that the LIMIT ... OFFSET combination is erroneous!

my '2 cents (or die tryin)',

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