On 12/5/05, Cameron Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a large set of data (that will be stored in MySQL) that I wish to > match to and am wondering what the best method is. > > Assume the following data in table LOCATION_MATCH: > LOCATION_ID LOCATION_PATTERN PARENT_ID > 10 6 > 11 4 10 > 13 2 11 > 12 9 11 > 14 1 13 > 15 2 13 > > The string 6438 should return 11, 6421 14, 6422 15 and 6499 12.
Eh, what? OK, I understand what is happening, but why? It seems to me that this is an implementation of a btree, but why? SQL databases have indexes, why not just use them? :) > I've read a bit about btrees on the zope wiki and wonder if that's the best > way. Probably, but only if you actually let them do the indexing. :-) -- Lennart Regebro, Nuxeo http://www.nuxeo.com/ CPS Content Management http://www.cps-project.org/ _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
