PossitionIndex (was: Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog phrase indexingrevisited)

Chris McDonough chrism@digicool.com
Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:04:48 -0400


Erik,

Once you're satisfied with the implementation, would you be willing submit
the module to the collector?

- C

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Enge" <erik@thingamy.net>
To: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@digicool.com>
Cc: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: PossitionIndex (was: Re: [Zope-dev] ZCatalog phrase
indexingrevisited)


> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Erik Enge wrote:
>
> > To be really useful I think the PossitionIndex' _proximity dictionary
> > needs to be turned into a BTree of some sort, but apart from that I
> > don't know what is missing.
>
> It's now using BTrees.  And I renamed it to PositionIndex (thanks to
> Chris Withers for this :-).
>
> > And speed might be a problem, haven't really tested that yet.  Will
> > during the weekend though.
>
> I indexed 30.000 objects using PositionIndex and searching (both
> exact-phrase and near) is very fast.  It doesn't seem to be bloated,
> either (the _proximity-attribute, that is).
>
> Do you guys have a testing-suite for indexes?  Maybe some I can apply to
> this index of mine?
>
>
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