Re: Reification - whats best practice?

Sandro Hawke wrote:
> You mean because it would involve a million round-trip fetches?  Yeah,
> that would be a problem.  I would expect in practice that one wouldn't
> usually need/want to fetch them all, but I'm sure there are
> exceptions.

We provide our data both on the web, accessible as individual documents, 
and for download, in one large file. This large file was downloaded a 
few thousand times last month, so for us at least, this use case is not 
at all exceptional.

Received on Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:32:46 UTC