- From: Jim Davis <jrd3@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 17:09:14 -0700
- To: Niket Patwardhan <niket@verity.com>, Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>, "Babich, Alan" <ABabich@filenet.com>, "'DASL'" <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>
At 05:03 PM 8/9/99 -0700, Niket Patwardhan wrote: >I think the key is what you mean by "succeed". The SQL model is to flag >problems (such as column names that don't exist) as an error, causing the >whole query to fail. The usual text retrieval philosophy is to avoid >returning errors, by treating that portion of the query as either true, >false or don't care. Given that type of philosophy, things would always >succeed, but would return more or less documents depending on the server. that's where the three-valued logic (as explained by Alan) comes in. the query won't fail (by fail I mean return a 4xx or 5xx) for missing columns. But if the column isnt there, the query won't MATCH either. Is this acceptable?
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