Hello, The changeover from subversion to git for the FreeBSD project enters it’s final stage about three hours from now (as I type this). At 3:01 UTC on Mar 31 2021, the repository will become read-only. The full schedule for that process is in the FreeBSD wiki. The first git commit is not expected until […]
FreshPorts will disable user login/updates on March 31 as part of transition to git Read More »
I had noticed a problem with my full text search solution when I was testing. If the input query contained a quote, an error resulted on the query. At the time, I attributed that to a poor input/text handling. Later, I realized I was wrong. On the website, this PHP code is used: Where $this->Query
to_tsquery gives ‘ERROR: syntax error in tsquery’ when it contains a space Read More »
In yesterdays blog post, Replacing a column search with a full text search solution, I wanted to mention how adding a LIMIT 10 to a fast running query made it run slower. I didn’t remember that issue until this morning. Fortunately, the fix was low cost. The query This is the query I ran: The
A PostgreSQL query runs in 1.7s – add a LIMIT 10, runs in 28.2 seconds Read More »
One of the many useful features on FreshPorts is: what port[s] install[s] this file? That’s the pkg-plist search option. pkg-plist is a file which “lists all the files installed by the port”. However not all ports have a pkg-plist file because the list is compiled automatically. That is why the configure_plist table was created to
Replacing a column search with a full text search solution Read More »
In this post I will show you how I discovered that the backend was putting data into a new table (generate_plist) but the website was still using the ports.pkg_plist column. The result was stale data being shown on the website (for older ports) or no data at all (for newer ports). How long? Since Oct
Converting a column-based expression to a row based solution Read More »