Thread: Unable to do a mailing list proper search
Good afternoon all, I am trying to search the mailing list archives for the phrase "list all role privileges", and I would like to return onlythe matches containing that exact phrase, and nothing else. Yet nothing works. No matter what I enter, I get all pages that contain any or all of the words, whether or not they are are concurrent to eachother, or spread throughout the page. Sure, the results include all pages with the exact phrase I want, but searchingthrough all the unwanted pages is frustratingly tedious. Can anyone tell me what the secret is to obtaining the desired search results? Enclosing a phrase in quotes works with mostmailing list archives, with most search engines, and in queries. So surely there is a way to perform a similar searchon the PostgreSQL archives? Thanks, Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail
On 10/31/2012 12:59 PM, craig@gtek.biz wrote: > Good afternoon all, > > I am trying to search the mailing list archives for the phrase "list all role privileges", and I would like to return onlythe matches containing that exact phrase, and nothing else. Yet nothing works. > > No matter what I enter, I get all pages that contain any or all of the words, whether or not they are are concurrent toeach other, or spread throughout the page. Sure, the results include all pages with the exact phrase I want, but searchingthrough all the unwanted pages is frustratingly tedious. > > Can anyone tell me what the secret is to obtaining the desired search results? Enclosing a phrase in quotes works withmost mailing list archives, with most search engines, and in queries. So surely there is a way to perform a similar searchon the PostgreSQL archives? Use Nabble search? http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/ > > Thanks, > Craig > > > Sent - Gtek Web Mail > > > > -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@gmail.com
On 10/31/2012 12:59 PM, craig@gtek.biz wrote: > list all role privileges Google: site:archives.postgresql.org 'list all role privileges' -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services and Development High Availability, Oracle Conversion, Postgres-XC @cmdpromptinc - 509-416-6579
> > On 10/31/2012 12:59 PM, craig@gtek.biz wrote: >> list all role privileges > > Google: > > site:archives.postgresql.org 'list all role privileges' > > -- I was kind of hoping "The world's most advanced open source database." would offer this functionality without having to relyon an outside source. Sent - Gtek Web Mail
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:02 AM, <craig@gtek.biz> wrote: >> >> On 10/31/2012 12:59 PM, craig@gtek.biz wrote: >>> list all role privileges >> >> Google: >> >> site:archives.postgresql.org 'list all role privileges' >> >> -- > > I was kind of hoping "The world's most advanced open source database." would offer this functionality without having torely on an outside source. Why? The most advanced open source projects depend heavily on outside sources. PostgreSQL is managed by git, borrowing from the Linux kernel development tools; one web site mirror is run on RackSpace; there's always a lot of reliance on uplinks and remote services. No point replicating what already exists! Leveraging (there, that's today's buzzword out of the way) Google Search rather than building your own is a smart move. Python used to have their own search facility, but it was recently pulled out in favour of Google (see http://www.python.org/search/ for example) because Google offer more functionality and faster response. ChrisA