Hey Mike,

My fault... I wasn't paying attention and thought I was replying to a
response from James.  No wonder it reminded me of our last conversation. :)

-Greg

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Michael Sokolov <
msoko...@safaribooksonline.com> wrote:

> Yeah I know -- we've been around this block before.  I agree that the
> whole block indexing/searching feature is a bit confusing, trappy and
> error-prone, and it may be helpful to have those boundary conditions as
> signposts, but in my case relaxing the restriction enabled me to execute
> the queries I want without having to write a lot of awkward extensions to
> my indexing code.  That code uses Python's haystack, which is based on
> django models, and in order to comply with the parent-not-its-child idea, I
> would have had to introduce dummy documents to stand in as the parents,
> something that isn't at all natural or straightforward in that
> django/haystack view of the world.  Maybe the enforcement of that
> restriction could be relaxed according to an option in the query
> constructor.
>
> -Mike
>

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