[Zope-dev] ZCatalog Indexes tab crawls...

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:22:06 +0100


Dieter Maurer wrote:
> "#objects" suggests that it is the number of objects indexed by
> this index. Who is interested in this information?

Well, it's been useful to be on several occasions when I've seen one index has 
less objects in than another...

> Unless one has inhomogeous objects, almost all objects are indexed
> by every index. Thus, "#objects" is likely to be similar for
> many indexes.

Hmmm... I use ZCatalogs a _lot_ for searching over inhomogenous sets of objects. 
For example, that's it's primary role in the CMF...

cheers,

Chris