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Show HN: View and search Postgres mailing lists

by diqi on 9/19/24, 6:52 AM with 2 comments

I built a site to browse the Postgres mailing list archives. It supports search using full text search from Postgres + vector search with the Lantern Postgres extension.

I've been using it for testing but cleaned it up a bit to share. :) Hopefully it's interesting to someone.

  • by skeptrune on 9/19/24, 7:57 AM

    Wow! Really cool. Cheers for the scraping portion being open source. I had fun searching for some of my postgres pain points and reading old discussion :).

    I'm curious how you're determining the cutoff point for showing results?

    Expand and hide for emails in thread is a really nice UI touch.

    It would be cool if there were a way to search across all the channels at once.

    On a similar note, the search query changing when I click on different threads is also a pain.

    Search query in the URL would be cool for sharing functionality.

    Noticed that there are sub-sentence highlights in the sidebar selector, but not the larger email thread view. Having them in the larger view would make it a bit easier to grok the results for me.