Andreas Jung wrote at 2005-1-30 15:30 +0100:
... Outstanding issues:
- some indexes show the number of indexed objects vs the number of indexes terms within the ZMI which is totally inconsistent. I think the ZMI should show the number of indexed objects. Index specific information e.g. the number of indexed terms should be shown within the indexes default view (if necessary). Objections?
This was already discussed (--> mailing list archives). I (and others) find it more informative to get a feeling about the size of the index (rather than the number of indexed objects) in the overview.
- Indexes derived from UnIndex also store informations about objects although they do not index useful information. ... An optimised version of UnIndex would store only values evaluating to non-zero.
It would essentially change the "number of indexed objects" (and make it a bit more informative when one is interested in the size of the index) ;-) You must be a bit careful with the "non-zero". Some indexes interpret (some) zero values in a special way, e.g. "DateRangeIndex". It interprets "None" as "no limit". However, I agree with you: at least when an object "o" does not define a value for index "i", then "i" should not index "o". I would also prefer when "None" would consistently means: I do not have a value (in the current context). But, this will interfere with some indexes. -- Dieter