Author: Dadi Jonsson
Date: 11:52:03 12/09/05
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On December 09, 2005 at 13:28:01, Dann Corbit wrote: >I tried several searches for things that I knew were there and all of them >failed. Search behaviour is not dictated by the forum software itself, but by the underlying databse functionality. The search as it is currently set up uses a "fulltext" index as the database vendor calls it. As a result searches are quite fast, considering the amount of data. Fulltext search looks for words, which may contain digits and underscore, but not special characters (including '.'). The administrator of the forum can change the search method (simple checkbox setting) to search for any character combination, but it is slower, probably much slower in such a big table as the one with the text of almost 500.000 messages from CCC. > The same searches would have worked on the old CCC archives. I decided to stick to the faster search and therefore you cannot search for something like "WAC.230". I actually tried your "WAC.230" search in the old archives and the response was: "Couldn't find any matches for the expression". You can, however, search for such terms in the subject text. Is that what you were referring to when you said that such searches worked on the old archives? I hope that you now have a better understanding of the available search options and why I went for fulltext searches. I would be interesting to know if all your failed searches involved expressions that fulltext search doesn't index. If not, then examples would be appreciated.
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