Martijn Faassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think one of the main limitations of the current catalog (and > hurry.query) is efficient support for sorting and batching the query > results. The Zope 3 catalog returns all matching results, which can > then be sorted and batched. This will stop being scalable for large > collections. A relational database is able to do this internally, and > is potentially able to use optimizations there. > > It would be very nice if someone could look into expanding hurry.query > and/or the catalog to support these cases. It would be interesting to > look at what Dieter Maurer has done with AdvancedQuery in Zope 2 in > this regard as well.
I recently became obsessed with this problem and sketched out an architecture for presorted indexes. I thought I'd take this opportunity to get some review of what I came to. >From my draft initial README: > Presort provides intids which assure the corresponding documents will > be presorted in any BTrees objects where the intid is used as a key. > Presorted intids exist alongside normal intids. Intids are > distributed over the range of integers available on a platform so as > to avoid moving presorted intids whenever possible, but eventually a > given presorted intid may need to be placed in between two other > consecutive presorted intids. When this happens, one or more > presorted intids will have to be moved. Normal intids are unchanging > as normal. > Presort also provides a facility for updating objects who store > presorted intids when a presorted intid is moved, such as in indexes. > It also provides for indexes that map a given query to the appropriate > presorted intid result set and for catalogs that use the appropriate > presorted intid utility to lookup the real objects for the results. Would this be a viable approach? Would it be generally useful? Also, the problem of distributing intids so that they are moved as seldom as possible is a bit of a challenge. I'm sure there's some algorithm for such problems that I'm just unaware of. Does anyone have any pointers for this? Ross _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users