I'm not completely sure I follow your scheme, but it's fairly to support GT, LT, etc with your own index.
Use a row for your index where the columns names are the data values you want to index. If you set the comparator type (in your example, this would be LongType), you can perform a LT or GT query just by getting a slice of the index columns. Store the original data row keys as the column values, and you're there. - Tyler On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Todd Nine <t...@spidertracks.com> wrote: > Thanks Johnathan, > > A follow up question. Will it be possible to migrate existing indexes > in a future release as part of the upgrade path to support LT and LTE > ops without equal? In the meantime in my Datanucleus Plugin I was > thinking I could do something like the following. It's not efficient > for space, but it will work and should hopefully be relatively efficient > for querying. > > > LT and LTE ops can be though of as the distance from the MAX value of > any given data type. For instance, if I had a data type :"ubershort", > which goes from -200 to 200, I could say that an expression of <= 0 is > really >= (distance) 200 from the maximum. I could use this equation to > calculate the "distance" to persist a distance value in a column named > "<colName>_reverse". Which would effectively give me a reverse index. > > > Then the value would simply be > > storedValue = MAXVALUE-userVal. > > >From there, whenever the user issues a < <= query, I would simply > translate the value via the above equation and < becomes > and <= > becomes >=. Aside from the space issue of storage, do you see any other > problems with this approach for a 0.7 compatible version of my plugin? > > Thanks, > Todd > > > > > > On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 14:00 +1300, Todd Nine wrote: > > > Fair enough! > > > > > > Thanks Jonathan. > > > > > > todd > > SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER > > > > todd nine| spidertracks ltd | 117a the square > > po box 5203 | palmerston north 4441 | new zealand > > P: +64 6 353 3395 | M: +64 210 255 8576 > > E: t...@spidertracks.co.nz W: www.spidertracks.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 18:47 -0500, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Todd Nine <t...@spidertracks.com> > wrote: > > > > Currently there is only indexing for LT and LTE expression when an EQ > > > > operator is present. Will it be possible to use the LT and LTE ops > > > > without an EQ by the 0.7.0 release? > > > > > > No. > > > > > > > If not, which of the following > > > > would be more efficient? > > > > > > > > 1. Creating a dummy column of 1 byte that is indexed. > > > > > > This is basically the same as doing a full range scan, only less > efficient. > > > > > > > 2. Use my previous indexing scheme of 2 Super CF for longs and > strings > > > > to get my < <= operations. Where I use the following scheme. > > > > > > I'm not sure I follow but if it's better than doing a full range scan > > > then it is better than 1. :) > > > >
