Re: [ams(at)oryx(dot)com: [ANNOUNCE] Archiveopteryx 1.10

["Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Dave Page wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > [mailto:pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Joshua D. Drake
> > Sent: 19 September 2006 23:12
> > To: Jim C. Nasby
> > Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] [ams(at)oryx(dot)com: [ANNOUNCE]
> > Archiveopteryx 1.10 released]
> >
> > Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > > So... since we all *love* the current archive engine (and
> > it's search)
> > > so much...
> > >
> > > What about switching over to this? It appears it should
> > work fine with
> > > majordomo, and I'd bet we could get someone from
> > Archiveopteryx to help
> > > with this.
> >
> > It also has a Tsearch2 interface :)
>
> Meaning what exactly? I'm sure any one of us is capable of writing a
> small script that could catch the mail messages from each list, and
> store them in a tsearch enabled database. The difficult bit is adding a
> good *web* interface to it with all the appropriate thread links and
> index pages, and without breaking all those pesky legacy URLs. There are
> also tens of thousands of documents in the search index that aren't
> emails that would also need to be handled.
>
> If you want to move to a new tsearch search engine (which I'm not
> against btw) then using our existing crawler script as a basis for a
> generic indexer would bypass all those problems, leaving just a web
> interface to tsearch to build.

Stupid question here, but haven't Oleg and crew not already done this?

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