Re: Better Archives?

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> > One thing I've noticed lately is that our archives are extremely hard to
> > search ...
>
> Which archives are you using?
>
> Oleg Bartunov &co provide a very nice search engine at
> http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/
>

Indeed, there is a very few links to fts.postgresql.org. I think it
could be represented a little bit better.

> I frequently also use Geocrawler's archive at
> http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Databases/
> though this does not cover all the PG lists.
>
> I tend to use the mhonarc archives only when I want to browse by
> date or by thread, not for searches.

Tom,

we'd be glad to know what feature/design we need to add/modify to
fts.postgresql.org. I think we already have support for browsing
by date/thread.

btw, I have a statistics of search queries on fts.postgresql.org.
Anybody interested ?

Here is a top queries:
307 odbc
203 windows
202 replication
177 balancing
165 jdbc
93 blob
77 xml
76 perl
70 kylix
68 php
61 re: [general] databases compared at zend.com
56 zipcode
53 odbc driver
52 cygwin
46 stored procedure
41 jdbc driver
41 gist
39 pgaccess
38 setof

>
> regards, tom lane
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Regards,
Oleg
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