[elephant-devel] Re: Duplicate values in PM-BTREE-INDEX

2008-06-27 Thread Alex Mizrahi
> We don't declare secondary indicies on dup-btrees, > in case that wasn't clear... if we did, semantics would be pretty strange, i think.. but what's not clear (perhaps i was not attentive) is if dup-btree in bdb supports duplicated pairs, or only duplicated keys with different values. if it

Re: [elephant-devel] Re: Duplicate values in PM-BTREE-INDEX

2008-06-26 Thread Ian Eslick
We don't declare secondary indicies on dup-btrees, in case that wasn't clear... Sent from my BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Alex Mizrahi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:21:02 To:elephant-devel@common-lisp.net Subject: [elephant-devel] Re: Duplicate va

[elephant-devel] Re: Duplicate values in PM-BTREE-INDEX

2008-06-26 Thread Alex Mizrahi
> Why make the index unique when the btree allows duplicates? in normal btrees keys are unique. in btrees-with-duplicates key+value pairs are unique. that's the idea. for normal btrees we create index on keys only, for dup-btrees -- index on pairs. allowing duplicated key+value pairs will total