Re: Spotlighting databases and preferences...
Re: Spotlighting databases and preferences...
- Subject: Re: Spotlighting databases and preferences...
- From: Ruslan Zasukhin <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:23:42 +0200
- Thread-topic: Spotlighting databases and preferences...
On 10/31/05 10:03 AM, "Jonathon Mah" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> 2) Is it possible to Spotlight databases in an efficient manner and
>> return
>> databaserecords? Since a database is a single file, Spotlighting a
>> database and
>> getting thename of your database back doesn't seem useful. I'm told
>> that Spotlight
>> can returnan individual record but the code is somewhat fancy.
>
> No. One file <=> one Spotlight record. If you want multiple Spotlight
> entires, you will have to make a separate file for each record. Lots
> of apps do this (iCal, for example) -- they explode the database into
> individual files in ~/Library/Caches/Metadata. Note that each file
> does not need to contain all the record information. Instead it could
> just store a record ID, for example, and have the importer refer to
> the full database for the rest of the metadata.
This is just not acceptable way for database search!
SpotLight must be improved to be able extended by some plugins,
Which will pass search query to DBMS and return results.
Although it is easy to see that then some service of DBMS must be like
daemon.
Nothing can do search better than DBMS itself.
No need duplicate records in the indexes of SpotLight.
Well, may be idea of Microsoft put EVERYTHING including file system into
Database looks more powerful than Apple's solution. On the other hand I do
not like idea of MS also.
> Also, be aware of the Spotlight-dev list <spotlight-
> email@hidden> if you have any other Spotlight-y questions.
> It's not very active, though.
--
Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc
Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com
[I feel the need: the need for speed]
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