Changes to search

[Steve]

Hi all,

Zak33 e-mailed me about some search issues (advanced searches timing out in particular).

I can see the problem happening, but haven't fixed it outright yet. However, I've done a couple of things that change the way search is done that should help things a little.

Most important is that new posts and edits won't get entered into the search core straight away - they're queued and processed in blocks at 10 minute intervals.

I don't think this will affect the "new posts" button and so on, because they rely purely on timestamps.

Even more most important is that the word length limit has been raised to 4. The MySQL server used to have its fulltext limit at 3. A while ago I setup a new server cluster and left it at the default of 4, which was at odds with the vBulletin configuration. I don't want to rebuild the fulltext indicies for 3 character words because our board is pretty big and it's not a good idea. Instead I'll add some exceptions, because vbulletin will let me do that.

So, if anybody has trouble searching for something, and there's really no other way of searching for it (which is going to be rare unless you suck at searching), let me know in here.

[blueball]

I been searching for my brain. Still can't find it. Any ideas?