[Zope3-dev] Zope 3 Alpha 1 in 2002

[Chris Withers]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> Tuples aren't persistent.  The persistent object is a BTree bucket
> that contains a bunch of tuples. I'd be willing to bet $.05 that
> these are among the larger objects in the database.

Fair enough. Is there nothing other than a BTree bucket that could be used?

>> Yes it does, if you set 'store' for an attribute name it stores the 
>> original data it indexed in a very similar way to ZCatalog's metadata.
> 
> What I meant was that aside from this feature, Lucene doesn't store the 
> original data. 

Yes, but this feature and ZCatalog's metadata provide the same functionality ;-)

> Not at all. Imagine a text index that indexes title and descriotion 
> together.

This has traditionally been done by saying "write a script which returns o.x + ' 
' + o.y". Is this pattern being abandoned? I hope so...

> ads).  The
> product from which ZCatalog was derived had this feature and it's 
> omission in
> ZCatalog has been rather annoying.

Okay, sounds good, I am converted to a GNI ;-)

Chris - is that a leg joint with a political license? ;-)