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advanced search on username does not always return data in expected sortorder	Issue Tools

09-08-2009 06:55 AM

Wim Sturkenboom Wim Sturkenboom is offline

Senior Member

advanced search on username does not always return data in expected sortorder

I use the advanced search to find threads that I've posted in. I've noticed that the order of the returned results is not always in expected order.

Code:

thread   | last post
---------+-----------
thread 1 | today 12:30
thread 2 | today 10:38
thread 3 | today 10:22
thread 4 | today 09:37
thread 5 | today 09:17
thread 6 | today 13:11
thread 7 | today 00:32

The thread is indeed displayed in bold in the results

Search settings:
find posts by user; exact name
any prefix
search all open forums; also search child forums
at least 0 replies
any date and newer
last posting date in descending order

For reference, searchid=3495233 (not sure if that helps). I'm not quite sure under which conditions it happens.

Issue Details
Issue Type Bug Project LinuxQuestions.org Category Unknown Status Not a Bug Priority Unknown Affected Version Unknown Fixed Version (none) Users able to reproduce bug 0 Users unable to reproduce bug 0 Attachments 0 Assigned Users (none) Tags (none)

09-08-2009 09:28 AM

jeremy

root

Due to the way we bump threads with no replies, you may see issues like this. If the thread in question did have a reply, please let me know as and I'll change the bug status and look into this further.

--jeremy

09-08-2009 11:21 AM

Wim Sturkenboom Wim Sturkenboom is offline

Senior Member

All those post have replies as I did reply in them. That's why I find them in the search ;)

09-13-2009 11:53 AM

Wim Sturkenboom Wim Sturkenboom is offline

Senior Member

OK,I think that I know what the problem is. I often visit the search twice in one session. It happened just now again and it states somewhere "Search took 0.35 seconds; generated 53 minute(s) ago". So the results of the search are the old results. If however in those 53 minutes a new post occured in one of the found threads, it will be highlighted (bold) and in the wrong position (sort order).

Hopes this helps.

09-14-2009 11:25 AM

jeremy

root

Due to the way searches are cached, that's actually the expected behavior. Thanks for taking the time to do the additional troubleshooting.

--jeremy

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