Subject: RE: [htdig3-dev] New features
From: Budd, S (s.budd@ic.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 01 1999 - 02:00:56 PST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Hutchison [SMTP:ghutchis@wso.williams.edu]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 8:28 PM
> To: Rajendra Inamdar
> Cc: htdig3-dev@htdig.org
> Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] New features
>
> At 2:29 PM -0500 11/29/99, Rajendra Inamdar wrote:
> >interest, I will be happy to post a patch. (Source baseline is
> >htdig-3.1.3)
>
>
>
> Would your patch work if the databases were on different machines and
> merged on a htsearch machine?
>
>
> > With the first approach, database sizes can become large, resulting
> > in slower searches. The second approach probably will have problems
> > with sorting and pagination.
>
> I'm not entirely sure which is necessarily faster. Granted, for many
> people the current approach of merging multiple DB together wastes
> tons of disk space since they end up with the separate databases AND
> the merged one. But this approach requires fewer database accesses.
>
> > In a way, it is similar to the second approach above, except that
> > the merging of results happens within htsearch itself. Since the
> > merged result list can be sorted and paginated, it avoids problems
> > with a wrapper script.
> >
> > One potential downside is, there may be more (database) files
> > open during the search. The modified htsearch seems to be working
> > satisfactorily.
>
>
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