The commits.php page has a long history dating back to 2006 in GitHub and before that in another repo. Soon, it is going away. The justification is in issue 337: it’s not used much, and it’s not doing as it should (loading the last 100 commits). In the early days, the front page showed only …
This post documents how I’m changing the search methods for pkg-message. It uses full-text search, but instead of using a special column, I’m going to use an index. I will elaborate. When searching pkg-message was added to the website, a different approach was taken than in the past. In Converting a column-based expression to a …
Moving from storing the tsvector values to a tsvector index Read More »
One of the primary uses for FreshPorts is searching various characteristics of the ports. One highly used search feature is pkg-messages (background at pkg-message). A problem which has been vexing me for about 2 months was the lack of results on prod, but results which worked on dev. The issue was raised on GitHub. Initially, …
When tsvector was working as expected on most hosts, but not one Read More »
Tonight I was setting up a new FreshPorts node for development. It took me a while to remember the steps. sudo su -l postgres psql template1 < globals.sql createdb -T template0 -E SQL_ASCII freshports.org psql freshports.org create language plperl; exit; time pg_restore -j 32 -d freshports.org ~dan/dump/freshports.org.dump