Searching the forums for ABF

[rhann]

I wanted to search the forums for posts about ABF on Linux. It appears that the keyword "ABF" is rejected as being too short. So instead of a small handful of posts I get 500 that mention Linux.

"ABF" may be short but it is very important in the Ingres context. Is there any way to stop the forum software from nannying me?

[rhann]

It seems that double-quoting "ABF" makes the warning go away, but now I get no matching threads either, not even this one.

[teresa]

Roy,

I've put in a request to see what could be done here. One way around this in the future is to use Tags with forum postings as you can search for ABF as a tag & it does locate one post.

Teresa

[teresa]

I tagged a few abf posts that I saw so you should at least see these now if you do a Tag Search & use the tag word abf.

Teresa

[joe]

Originally Posted by rhann

It seems that double-quoting "ABF" makes the warning go away, but now I get no matching threads either, not even this one.

It's a limitation of MediaWiki and MySQL (see this), but it should be correctable.

[pstout]

I have updated the search settings to allow for ABF.

[rhann]

Sorry Paul, that doesn't seem to have done it. The warning that the keyword is too short no longer appears, but abf isn't used either, so I get no hits. If I use linux as well I get 500 wether ABF is mentioned or not.

Teresa, sadly, I don't foresee many posters using tagging. :-(

[maspa05]

abf* seems to work.

[rhann]

Thanks Paul (maspa05). [Various reactionary comments self-censored.]