Re: candidate requirement: boolean query

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 02:52:10PM +0100, Seaborne, Andy wrote:
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Kendall Clark <>
> > Date: 18 June 2004 13:01
> > 
> > Folks,
> > 
> > I'm not wedded to this wording, but I think it at least hints at an
> > important requirement. Ideally I'd like some kind of first class
> > syntax for a boolean query -- SELECT BOOL or SELECT ? or ASK -- but
> > the requirement isn't as much about syntax as it is about being able
> > to query a graph and get back TRUE or FALSE.
> 
> An observation: if we have LIMIT and if we have the trailing flag, "there
> was more", then "LIMIT 0" is the same as asking "does this graph pattern
> match at all?" and it can be optimized as such on the server - it would
> depend on the same decisions elsewhere for disjunction.

Or LIMIT 1 and no trailing flag.
I think you can do all the same things with that.

> That is not to say that syntax for it would not be appropriate.

admittedly
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