Hey, I created a patch for custom fields in searches, but i don't where to refer to, and i can't test it.
I have uploaded it to http://lapacaloca.com/arch/aur-rpc-custom-fields.patch What should I do now? Thank you On 5/7/08, Loui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > >
