Re: LSR search is broken (was: \repeat with upbeat )

[Sebastiano Vigna]

On Jul 7, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Valentin Villenave wrote:

> > Am 07.07.2008 um 00:44 schrieb Eluze Weehaeli:
>
> >  http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?u=1&id=490
> > Using http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/ you can search - e.g. for upbeat or  
> > repeat -
> > the snippet repository but you will not find this snippet
> > Using Browse you can find it after scrolling through several pages...
> > What's the problem here?
>
> 2008/7/7 James E. Bailey <address@hidden>:
> > I've wondered this for a long time. I've stopped using the lsr  
> > because of
> > it. There are people here, kieren, for example who can find  
> > anything on the
> > lsr. I can't. I search the lsr by asking here and waiting until  
> > someone
> > posts a link.
>
> This is a known problem, and we're all aware of it : there are many
> issues with the LSR architecture, its database, its search function,

Guys, please post this kind of problems. There was simply a wrong  
update so that the index wasn't rebuilt since days. So new snippets  
were showing up in the browsing list (because they are picked from the  
database in that case) but not in a search. I know I should check that  
things are fine more frequently, but please post in case of problems.

The architecture works flawlessly, and I don't know of any problem  
with the search function. The problem is the physical system. It is a  
machine that is sometimes updated aggressively (e.g., to experiment  
new software). And there was of course the DB connection bug--but that  
has been fixed (the fix caused this problem, BTW).

Ciao,

                                seba