Forum OpenACS Q&A: drop/recreate of openfts-driver partially breaks search

1: drop/recreate of openfts-driver partially breaks search

Posted by Ola Hansson on 05/22/02 12:14 AM

If you drop the "openfts-driver" and install it again all notes
and static pages and so forth that was indexed and searchable
*prior* to dropping the driver no longer works. Only pages and
notes created afterwards can then be searched.

Does anyone have a workaround or solution to this?

Can I somehow get the old content back in business?

Thanks,

2: Response to drop/recreate of openfts-driver partially breaks search (response to 1)

Posted by Ola Hansson on 05/22/02 11:31 AM

I just found out that, while the above is true, there is a difference in behaviour between notes and static pages:

Notes *do* become searchable again after they've been edited (and thus reindexed within 30 seconds).

Static pages, OTOH, *don't* ever become searchable when edited and rescanned (even though being reindexed within 30 seconds).

(I.e., the "search_observer_queue" table gets its "UPDATE" directives to the search_indexer inserted in both cases)

BTW, it was only yesterday that static pages at all became searchable *after having been updated*. See: this thread.

So... to reiterate, my current worry is reviving searchability of static pages after the dropping-and-recreating of the openfts-driver, in case I didn't make myself clear😉