On Wed, 7 May 2008 08:35:34 +0200 "Francesc Ortiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > Adding the possibility of specifying the fields you want to show in > the search results would reduce rpc query time and would also reduce > server load. Getting custom fields would be 1 connection vs N+1 > (N=number results, 1 the search) connections that you have to do now > for a pacman-like search. And in what time regards, as an example, for > 30 results now I need (30+1)*550ms = around 17 seconds. > > I also see that this would be more intense work for the database, so > it would be reasonable to add a result limit to the search, if you use > custom fields, in order to reduce subqueries. I totally agree with you. The RPC interface should really be at least as powerful as the web search, but no one has really had the motivation to write a patch for that yet heh. If you're interested, you can check out the AUR source code at http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=aur.git write a patch and submit it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers.
