Thread: PostgreSQL documentation search engine for Firefox

Hi guys,
  I thought it might be nice to share this with you. Given that I often
search for information in PostgreSQL documentation, I have decided to
add a search engine to my Firefox. I have used the old technology, when
I have more time I will try the new standard (through XML), which should
also work for IE7.
  Please give it a go:

http://www.itpug.org/index.en.html
  under Mozilla Search Engine.
  One thing. My friend Marco Nenciarini sent me this message regarding
the search engine: he searched for 'pg_shadow' and this link came up as
a recommendation, but it is broken:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/catalog-pg-shadow.html

Ciao,
Gabriele

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Hi,

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:11 +0100, Gabriele Bartolini wrote:
>    I thought it might be nice to share this with you. Given that I
> often search for information in PostgreSQL documentation, I have
> decided to add a search engine to my Firefox.

There are already two :)

http://people.planetpostgresql.org/greg/index.php?/archives/107-Fire-elephant.html

http://www.gunduz.org/postgresql/searchpostgresqlorg.html

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> > >>>
> > >>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/catalog-pg-shadow.html
> > >>
> > >> Wow -- why is it recommended?  pg_shadow stopped existing on 8.1, so
> > >> it's almost three releases out of date.  Is the search engine using the
> > >> 8.0 index?
> > >
> 
> Understand that the recommendations are keyword based... ie if you search on 
> pg_shadow, it's quite likely you would want the above page. 

I rather think you'd want something that's not 404.
> > > no I don't think so iirc the "recommended" stuff is actually coming from
> > > the docbot search database (ie the database of the irc bot). The
> > > websearch should be fully up2date but I'm not sure when the docbot
> > > database was last synced ...
> >
> 
> not a question of sync issue... the bot on irc was still using that link as of 
> this afternoon (when I saw the initial post in this thread on advocacy and 
> then updated the irc bot)

Oh..
Well, the sync stuff is stil an interesting question.
> > Yup, that's correct.  And the fulltext stuff certainly seems to be doing
> > things right.
> >
> > Rob - whatever happened to setting up a scheduled job to sync the docbot
> > stuff?
> >
> 
> Let's pretend I was waiting for the move to the new server and the 8.3 updates 
> to get done. Now that we have it, I'll see what I can do to push that 
> forward. 

Touché.
When you do, please go ahead and commit the missing schema stuff to svn :P

/Magnus