Yes! Mike
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Shai Erera <[email protected]> wrote: > This sounds like incremental field updates :). > > Shai > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Michael McCandless > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Jason Rutherglen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> But: they don't yet support updating the values (the goal is to allow >> >> this, eventually). This is just the first step. >> > >> > No? Hmm... I thought that was a main part of the functionality? >> >> Patches welcome ;) >> >> Seriously, how would you do it? IE, I don't like how norms handle it >> today -- on changing a single value we must write the full array (for >> all docs). Same problem w/ del docs, though since its 1 bit per doc >> the cost is far less. >> >> Better would be a stacked approach, where the orig full array remains >> and we write sparse deltas (pairs of docID + new value), and at init >> we load the base and apply all the diffs (in order). Merging would >> periodically coalesce them down again... >> >> Mike >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
