James Busser wrote: > Does GNUmed have --- or is it in future intended to have --- a search > process that, based on start of file markers inside objects, can > easily determine a method to do e.g. boolean searches inside the > object(s), facilitated by some kind of re-usable open source plug-in? > > I think the answer is: yes that's possible, but not desirable.
I'm not sure what the end-user use would be for searching, say, all the JPEG images, would be. Searches are generally around clinical meta-data (all MRIs of the brain, for example) irrespective of what format they are actually stored in, the meta-data is elsewhere in doc_med and doc_obj. Conceptually, if you want to search 'inside' a blob, then it isn't really a blob anymore, and you would need to decompose the data and store it in a different table, broken up into it's logical components. This is not just SQL design purism: it's the only way to do the search in reasonable time. Ian _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
