Re: Docs search does not work for the "@>" operator

On 2025-03-03 19:35 +0100, Jai Sharma wrote:
> When searching on the Postgres docs website, searching with the strings
> `@>` or `"@>"` returns no results.
>
> Ordinarily, I would expect to see results returned including this page (which
> was the page I was looking for):
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/functions-range.html

Any operator, in fact, because pgweb implements its search with
plainto_tsquery [1] which ignores punctuation.

> Can the search be updated to work with these characters please?

I don't see how because information about these operators (or any other
punctuation) is lost when pages are converted to tsvector by the web
crawler. Maybe a separate operator index where you could search with
ctrl+f is an option. But I don't know if that is feasible with the
current document structure without having to maintain basically two
separate operator docs. But DocBook can certainly index symbols [2].

[1] https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgweb.git;a=blob;f=tools/search/sql/functions.sql;h=9ee5c4a51c0fba97e7e851a78db33669ecfc440e;hb=HEAD#l12
[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/bookindex.html#indexdiv-Symbols

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Erik Wienhold