[Zope-dev] Comment on CVS change of default textindex search operator

[Casey Duncan]

"R. David Murray" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Casey Duncan wrote:
> > > It's so broken with OR for large datasets that the search results are
> > > virtually meaningless.  We see this first-hand on Zope.org (which is now
> > > ANDed after an upgrade) and in most of our consulting projects.
> > >
> > > I strongly agree that there should be an easy way to switch textindex
> > > default queries between OR and AND on a per-index basis.
> > >
> >
> > I'd even be happy with a per catalog basis.
> 
> Likewise.  But this is the can of worms I alluded to.  Another
> approach would be to allow the default operator to be specified at
> query time <grin>.
> 

Agreed. This should be part of the ZCatalog search API in addition to
the default specified.

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| Casey Duncan
| Kaivo, Inc.
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