Thread: Search thoughts
Hello, I have been doing some example searching with our search engine and was wondering if we can adjust the weights a little differently. For example: ALTER TABLE, first link is: http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/node203.html Which although accurate is way out dated. It seems we should weight a docs search higher with the current docs having the most weight? The same happens with many of the commands such as CREATE INDEX... Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/
Reposting because I realize that everyone was in bed or heading home when this came through: Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > > I have been doing some example searching with our search engine and was > wondering if we can adjust the weights a little differently. For example: > > ALTER TABLE, first link is: > > http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/node203.html > > Which although accurate is way out dated. It seems we should weight a > docs search higher with the current docs having the most weight? > > The same happens with many of the commands such as CREATE INDEX... > > Joshua D. Drake > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/
-----Original Message----- From: "Joshua D. Drake"<jd@commandprompt.com> Sent: 11/05/06 17:47:12 To: "Joshua D. Drake"<jd@commandprompt.com> Cc: "PostgreSQL WWW"<pgsql-www@postgresql.org> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Search thoughts > Reposting because I realize that everyone was in bed or heading home > when this came through: Huh? Your email vanishes if you aren't there to read it as soon as it arrives? :-) And, no, I don't mind if you wanna tweak the weights. /D -----Unmodified Original Message----- Reposting because I realize that everyone was in bed or heading home when this came through: Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > > I have been doing some example searching with our search engine and was > wondering if we can adjust the weights a little differently. For example: > > ALTER TABLE, first link is: > > http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/node203.html > > Which although accurate is way out dated. It seems we should weight a > docs search higher with the current docs having the most weight? > > The same happens with many of the commands such as CREATE INDEX... > > Joshua D. Drake > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > > I have been doing some example searching with our search engine and was > wondering if we can adjust the weights a little differently. For example: > > ALTER TABLE, first link is: > > http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/node203.html > > Which although accurate is way out dated. It seems we should weight a docs > search higher with the current docs having the most weight? > > The same happens with many of the commands such as CREATE INDEX... Sounds reasonable to me ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Page wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Joshua D. Drake"<jd@commandprompt.com> > Sent: 11/05/06 17:47:12 > To: "Joshua D. Drake"<jd@commandprompt.com> > Cc: "PostgreSQL WWW"<pgsql-www@postgresql.org> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Search thoughts > >> Reposting because I realize that everyone was in bed or heading home >> when this came through: > > Huh? Your email vanishes if you aren't there to read it as soon as it > arrives? :-) Glad someone else asked >:) I know I get impatient when ppl don't read my email, but this one took the cake *rofl* ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 17:10 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > > I have been doing some example searching with our search engine and was > wondering if we can adjust the weights a little differently. For example: > > ALTER TABLE, first link is: > > http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/node203.html > > Which although accurate is way out dated. It seems we should weight a > docs search higher with the current docs having the most weight? > > The same happens with many of the commands such as CREATE INDEX... That's actually not as simple as it sounds. A lot of things is involved in calculating weights for documents from the same site, given the keywords 'ALTER TABLE', the position of the keywords on the page, if they appear in the title, and their position... You will notice, that pages with just the keywords are wighted higher than those where they appear last, etc... The earlier discussion about SiteWeight, does not apply here as they are just for that, weighting entire sites higher, or lower, than others... However, if you first navigate to the documentation for the current version, then do your search, then only pages from that section will be included in the search. ... John > > Joshua D. Drake >