Re: Search points to ancient manuals

On Oct 31, 2012 6:51 PM, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 10/30/12 3:53 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> > Josh Berkus wrote:
> >
> >> 1. go to postgresql.org home page.
> >>
> >> 2. type "compile postgres" in the search box.
> >>
> >> 3. the first result will be the installation chapter from the 6.5
> >> version of the manual.
> >
> > Of course, if you search for "compile postgresql" the top two entries
> > are for 9.2. Perhaps we should make those equivalent in searches?
>
> Well, we could really use some way to make docs other than the current
> version have a much lower score, automatically. I don't know how to
> implement this, though.

We already do this for Google, so it shouldn't be rocket science.

At one point we just didn't index the unsupported versions at all, but we
turned that back on when we realized the cure was worse than the disease.
However, it seems we never got around to downing the priority of the old
docs.

It's just so a sql query of course, so patches welcome ;)

/Magnus