On Nov 13, 2006, at 7:57 AM, Ian Eslick wrote:
I think a macro system makes sense when we find we want to have a
query
syntax (a simpler and more elegant version of what SQL tries to do)
that
concisely expresses the class of operations we want to perform and
behind which we need to put a query sequencer or compiler to optimize
retrieval.
That's where I'm aiming at
I do think that Pierre is right that we need to list a set of
queries we
want to perform and not worry about performance up front. We can
worry
about sequencing, etc when we have examples of slow queries that start
to rise to the level of user perception. Let's build up this
infrastructure incrementally so we can figure out what the problems
are
at low cost.
Agree 100%
Also, I'm going to promote a faster serializer shortly that should
speed
up both SQL and BDB backends which should take some modest constant
factors off of query runtime from disk (vs. DCM).
Cheers,
Ian
That would be splendid
Thanks,
Daniel
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