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# 1.10 03-Aug-2023 rin

makemandb: trailing whitespace


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# 1.9 18-May-2019 leot

Reintroduce case insensitive comparison of name accidentally lost in last
revision.

Discussed with <abhinav> via PR misc/54213, thanks!


# 1.8 18-May-2019 abhinav

PR misc/54213: Fix performance of whatis(1) when no matches are found

In revision 1.6 of whatis.c the query was modified to return matches for names found
in MLINKS of the man pages as well. However it was slow. The reason probably being that it
required a join. But more importantly the where condition on an FTS virtual table column
is very slow. To avoid the join and the expensive where condition on the virtual table,
add the name_desc column to the mandb_links table as well. This improves the performance
of whatis(1) to the original level at the expense of slight data duplication.

Bump the schema to force database rebuild to take account for the new column addition


Revision tags: netbsd-8-3-RELEASE netbsd-8-2-RELEASE netbsd-8-1-RELEASE netbsd-8-1-RC1 pgoyette-compat-merge-20190127 pgoyette-compat-20190127 pgoyette-compat-20190118 pgoyette-compat-1226 pgoyette-compat-1126 pgoyette-compat-1020 pgoyette-compat-0930 pgoyette-compat-0906 pgoyette-compat-0728 netbsd-8-0-RELEASE phil-wifi-base pgoyette-compat-0625 netbsd-8-0-RC2 pgoyette-compat-0521 pgoyette-compat-0502 pgoyette-compat-0422 netbsd-8-0-RC1 pgoyette-compat-0415 pgoyette-compat-0407 pgoyette-compat-0330 pgoyette-compat-0322 pgoyette-compat-0315 pgoyette-compat-base matt-nb8-mediatek-base perseant-stdc-iso10646-base netbsd-8-base
# 1.7 23-May-2017 abhinav

branches: 1.7.10;
Make the name comparison case insensitive.

(The old whatis(1) also used to do case insensitive string comparisons).


Revision tags: prg-localcount2-base3 prg-localcount2-base2 prg-localcount2-base1 prg-localcount2-base pgoyette-localcount-20170426
# 1.6 23-Apr-2017 abhinav

Teach whatis(1) to handle MLINKS

Similar to apropos(1), whatis did not utilise the mandb_links table till now.
Therefore, if it was asked about one of the links to a man page, it would
error out. This change teaches whatis(1) to look up both the FTS table
as well as the links table, thus ensuring that it is able to answer queries
about MLINKS as well.

Comparision between outputs before this change and after this change:

#Before change
$ whatis realloc
realloc: not found

#after change
$ ./whatis realloc
realloc(3) - general memory allocation operations
realloc(3) - general purpose memory allocation functions
realloc(9) - general-purpose kernel memory allocator


Revision tags: bouyer-socketcan-base1 pgoyette-localcount-20170320 bouyer-socketcan-base pgoyette-localcount-20170107 pgoyette-localcount-20161104 localcount-20160914 pgoyette-localcount-20160806 pgoyette-localcount-20160726 pgoyette-localcount-base
# 1.5 22-May-2016 abhinav

branches: 1.5.2;
Add options to whatis and apropos to accept custom man.conf.

makemandb(8), man(1) already use -C as an option to take man.conf path,
so use the same option for whatis(1) and apropos(1) for consitency.
apropos was using -C/-c to disable/enable context of the search
matches, change that to -M/-m respectively.


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# 1.4 06-Oct-2012 wiz

Make mandb path configurable. makemandb (and related tools) use
the path from the _mandb variable from man.conf now.

Set _mandb in man.conf to same value as was used before.

From Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay@gmail.com>.


Revision tags: yamt-pagecache-base5 yamt-pagecache-base4
# 1.3 20-Feb-2012 joerg

branches: 1.3.2; 1.3.4;
SQLite doesn't use the FTS index for equal ops, so force it to do a FTS
search first. Drops run time by a factor of 6 for "whatis man".
Found by Abhinav Upadhyay.


Revision tags: netbsd-6-base
# 1.2 07-Feb-2012 joerg

branches: 1.2.2;
Fix C&P error with $NetBSD$


# 1.1 07-Feb-2012 joerg

Import the new apropos/whatis.

This code has been developed by Abhinav Upadhyay as part of Google's Summer
of Code 2011. It uses libmandoc to parse man pages and builds a Full
Text Index in a SQLite database. The combination of indexing the full
manual page, filtering out stop words and ranking individual matches
based on the section gives a much improved user experience.

The old makewhatis and friends are kept under MKMAKEMANDB=no for now.