[Zope-dev] Hey Chris, question for you

[Chris McDonough]

I think it has changed for FieldIndexes.  You can now make the distinction
between "doesnt have that attribute" and "attribute is one of [None, '', [],
()]" within a Field Index.  You do this in an almost natural way, the major
exception being that you need to wrap a blank string ('') in a sequence in
the query (e.g. title=['']) due to hysterical behavior.

I'm not sure about Text Indexes.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Dickenson" <tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk>
To: "Michel Pelletier" <michel@digicool.com>
Cc: "Casey Duncan" <cduncan@kaivo.com>; "Chris McDonough"
<chrism@digicool.com>; <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Hey Chris, question for you


On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:42:40 -0700 (PDT), Michel Pelletier
<michel@digicool.com> wrote:

>Hmm the reason for the current behavior was optimization by saving space
>not indexing empty values.

I was always very pleased with that characteristic, but I had not
realised it was a design goal.

I thought I observed that characteristic had changed in a recent Zope
release... hmmm, Ill take a look.


Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com