On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 08:36:08AM -0400, Erick Erickson wrote: > How does this list of authors get selected? The reason I'm asking is > I'm wondering > if you can "define the problem away". In other words, I'm wondering if this > is an XY problem (http://people.apache.org/~hossman/#xyproblem).
:-) > I can't imagine you expect a user to specify up to 2k authors... Of course not for each individual query. > so there must > be something programmatic going on here, perhaps you can index some clever > information with the docs that'll make this more tractable... Alas, they do provide a list of names on a regular basis -- which comes from an external source (which changes slowly and is provided, e.g. once a month). To be more precise there will be a couple of those lists. I don't see (yet) how to define the problem away, but I keep trying... Thanks for the nudge -- tomás
