[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Kathy Lussier
Hi all, We've had difficulty finding records in our catalog due to the automatic stemming that occurs when records are indexed in Evergreen. As an example, a title on one of our summer readings lists was The Assist by Neil Swidey. However, when users were searching for the assist as a title

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Dan Scott
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:22:15AM -0400, Kathy Lussier wrote: Hi all, We've had difficulty finding records in our catalog due to the automatic stemming that occurs when records are indexed in Evergreen. As an example, a title on one of our summer readings lists was The Assist by Neil

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Mike Rylander
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Dan Scott d...@coffeecode.net wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:22:15AM -0400, Kathy Lussier wrote: Hi all, We've had difficulty finding records in our catalog due to the automatic stemming that occurs when records are indexed in Evergreen. As an example, a

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Feature proposal: SMS transport error managing

2012-08-14 Thread Kivilahti Olli-Antti
While looking into ways to integrate our SMS service provider to Evergreen, I came upon the idea to follow SMSes' sent, and whether or not they reach their destination. An email is sent to a special account for any undeliverable SMSes. Currently in Evergreen we don't have a clue what happens

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Benjamin Kalish
As a librarian who frequently uses Evergreen at the reference desk, I would prefer to have stemming used to retrieve results, but have exact matches ranked highest, then close matches, and finally distant matches. The search results for assist would then include the word assist, assists, and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Kathy Lussier
Thank you for your help and feedback Dan! This particular example is quite a concern! I haven't noticed anything similar yet, since we moved to Evergreen 2.3ish last week, and nobody has brought a similar problem to my attention, but it might just be early days for us. Echoing what Mike said,

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Kathy Lussier
Thanks Mike! Relating particularly to this example, though, is the (now generally unused) relevance adjustment code that targets exactly this problem by boosting the score of (without restricting to) exact word matches. One of the hopes with the convert some stored procedures from perl or

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Automatic stemming in Evergreen

2012-08-14 Thread Mike Rylander
On Aug 14, 2012 11:58 AM, Benjamin Kalish bkal...@forbeslibrary.org wrote: As a librarian who frequently uses Evergreen at the reference desk, I would prefer to have stemming used to retrieve results, but have exact matches ranked highest, then close matches, and finally distant matches. The

[OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.2 upgrade from rc1

2012-08-14 Thread Martha Driscoll
I'm trying to upgrade a training server from 2.2-rc1 to 2.2.1. The last script registered in config.upgrade_log is 0709 so I ran 0710 but got an error: Here is what I typed: psql -U evergreen -h localhost -v eg_version=null -f 0710* Here is what I got: ERROR: cannot ALTER TABLE issuance

Re: [OPEN-ILS-DEV] 2.2 upgrade from rc1

2012-08-14 Thread Dan Wells
Hello Martha, Yes, you will want to add that line between the UPDATE and the first ALTER TABLE. Since 0706 and 0710 are two versions of the same idea, the upgrade file probably combines the two (so that is where the line came from). To help explain what is happening, some of the constraints