Robert Sanderson wrote: > > The real need for sort to be close to search-request is, as the doc says, > > for targets that need to be able to optimise the way they work. I have a > > few SQL backends, and it's really inconvienient to execute what can be a > > heavy SQL statement, only to have to immediately re-evaluate it because a > > sort-request has just come in and now we need to tag some order by clause > > on the end. > > So the point is just to make it easier for using SQL as a backend then? That was my reaction too. But the thing that would stop me using encapsulation would be that (as far as I know) you can't say do this search and only sort if the result set is less than NNNN records. > A lot of targets, according to their Supported Requests info in Init don't > support sort. And a lot of the ones that claim it, don't in truth. Can you expand on this Rob? What exactly are these targets not doing? Ashley. -- Ashley Sanders a.sanders@mcc.ac.uk COPAC: A public bibliographic database from MIMAS, funded by JISC http://copac.ac.uk/ - copac@mimas.ac.ukReceived on Monday, 17 September 2001 07:53:28 GMT
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