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Deborah:
I picked a simple one, just to see how the Search function worked.
Keyword: son
Author: Deborah
That should have returned hundreds of posts. Instead, I got:
No topics or posts met your search criteria
After reading more closely, it appears that one will not be able to search for a keyword by a specific author.
Is that accurate?
Deborah:
Okay, I think I "may" have figured out the problem.
I just conducted the same search son/Deborah and click posts at the bottom.
It returned only the message I just posted in this thread.
It appears that it is not searching the old database.
Is that possible?
TechJockey:
--- Quote from: ""Deborah"" ---Okay, I think I "may" have figured out the problem.
I just conducted the same search son/Deborah and click posts at the bottom.
It returned only the message I just posted in this thread.
It appears that it is not searching the old database.
Is that possible?
--- End quote ---
Yeah. I was just looking at the code that converted the old database to the new format, and here's the deal:
This version contains a full-text indexing feature, to make the searches more efficent. During the upgrade conversion, wordlists were created by the upgrade script. This ultimately resulted in a list containing 174,031 unique words, and 7,707,538 occurances of those words. So, in order to keep the size of those tables down, the script automatically applied a formula to remove the the words that occur as more than a certain percentage of the list. In other words, the more common words from the old database simply arent in the list that the search feature uses to find the matching posts.
Probably more info than you needed, but it's actually working the way it was intended. :D
Antigen:
TechJockey rocks the Shazzbah! :nworthy: He'll be attending to tech issues for me from here on out. Please let me know how it goes. These puting gurus can be troublesome servants and terrible masters. Let's not let him get out of hand.
TechJockey:
--- Quote from: ""Eudora"" ---TechJockey rocks the Shazzbah! :nworthy: He'll be attending to tech issues for me from here on out. Please let me know how it goes. These puting gurus can be troublesome servants and terrible masters. Let's not let him get out of hand.
--- End quote ---
I can easily be pacified with an endless supply of bananas. :wink:
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