Dear VisionsOfSugarplums,
Also, a useful feature, which was that the term searched for was highlighted in the results (in the text), no longer seems to happen ie/ no highlight, which is unfortunate IMO Highlighting of search terms in search query results has been fixed. There was an old implementation in the code that would corrupt the formatting of the returned search results. It was removed. It has now been replaced with newly implemented code that should highlight the search results in the returned pages without corrupting the content displayed. The html is dissembled separating content from formatting, the styling is applied, and then the post is reassembled restoring the formatting. The highlighting should be present and the return pages should be very clean now, please let me know.
Regarding errors during search; these are due to timeouts; generally if the database server takes more than 30 seconds to find a result set matching the query, the web server will time-out waiting for a response and return an error page.
This might be fixed in several ways: by our increasing the amount of time allowed before a timeout, our optimizing the search code, our reducing the amount of data being searched (fewer years checked), or our adding hardware resources to or splitting the load on the database server. I'll need to spend some time looking into this. Full-text search is one of the most resource intensive functions that can be performed on a database server.
Quite often, if an error web page is returned as the result of a search timeout, repeating the search will result in success. This is as the database server will cache the data used in the search in memory and perform it faster (within the timeout) upon a subsequent attempt.
Regards,
@Dima |
