Martijn Faassen wrote:
Hi there,
Now that there's a plain catalog and an extent catalog, and while I was
implementing a 'not' operator for a query language, I ran into some
missing abstraction that would be convienient; a way to get all the
object ids that are indexed,
For some definition of indexed. :)
preferably in the form of a IFBTree so I
can do fast intersections and the like (which are needed for "not",
which is an intersection of all object ids with those object ids I don't
want).
Right now this information is not really available in a standard or a
very efficient manner. For the normal catalog you can ask the IIntId
utility for all int ids, which is reasonable and should be fairly
efficient, though it'd be nice to have something come out in IFBTree
form (or perhaps the intid's IOBTree can be intersected with an IFBTree
directly? that'd be nice..
Yup. This is a wart in the current BTree implementation. You can't do
merging operations across BTree types. We've been able to get around
in the past, because we didn't support operations accross catalogs.
Now, however, this is getting to be more of a problem.
> ). I also think however that it's the wrong
place the ask for this information, as this doesn't work with the
extentcatalog.
Well, it depends on what you meant by "indexed" above. Different indexes
index different objects. The extent catalog tried to define an extent for
which it makes sense to apply different (not) operations.
The catalog itself seems like the wrong place to ask as well however, as
things would get hairy in the case of a query over multiple catalogs --
which catalog would be asked for all ids that are indexed?
In general, I'd like the catalog to remain fairly small and free of logic.
I wanted to say this in the other thread you started on cataloging, but
didn't get to it. Ideally, a catalog wouldn't have any query logic
at all. People should be able to invovate on query algorithms without
affecting catalogs.
Hm, perhaps this isn't ideal either, as this would get hairy in case of
a query that spans multiple catalogs -- which catalog will be asked in
that case for a list of all documents?
I think in the particular case of "not", you have to have an implicit or
explicit set that you are subtracting something from. The "right" set is
application specific. In any case, I think the query logic should be
in separate query components.
Jim
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