Borked search
- Thread starter johnbryanpeters
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I'm fairly sure I've mentioned payload more than twice in my thread
ridemonkey.bikemag.com
Search results for query: payload
ridemonkey.bikemag.com
Borking up the wrong tree, I guess...
If it is broken and needs fixing, can I petition to have the default results be based on newest first? Rather than relevance, which seems to just show me stuff from 10 years ago, rather than the thread from last week I'm generally hunting for.
IIRC BV had to turn it off to fix something else
Slowness...
I disabled enhanced search because it was causing the page to fail to refresh every time anyone posted something. It reverted back to the old style search which should still function, but it looks like it's not happy. I'm rebuilding the search index to see if that solves it.
The indexes are rebuilt and it looks like the searches are happy now. The non-enhanced search is pretty mediocre but it'll work for the time being.
How do the search indices work?
Caveat: I am not a database wizard.
My understanding is that SQL is poorly optimized for searching partial text within certain fields - e.g. finding the word "payload" inside each posts' contents. If the entire post were the word "payload" it wouldn't be a problem because it's fast to match an entire field, but that's not the case when searching a forum.
Building the search indexes create a full text index which is built against the individual words of the posts, which can be searched much faster.
Any more details than that and I'll have to call my database architect buddy to explain it to me before I relay it to you
Has Search changed slightly? I don't seem to remember it omitting two and three letter words from the results.
In saying that, I am not all that observant.
In saying that, I am not all that observant.
Yes. The enhanced search is borked, so we're back to MySQL queries which are far less sophisticated.
Borked again? I'm only seeing 4 posts in my history and everbody else's. @binary visions halp?!
Caches rebuilt. Seems like user post histories are returned successfully now. Let me know if anything else looks broken.
seems to be working better for me. I was looking for my smart watch thread, search didn't find it...now it finds it. Though it works with "smart watch" and not "smartwatch". Not sure if the function is just not smart enough to differentiate.
Works for me
Must be blinded by the light.
Have you tried turning this thread off, then on again?
