[thelist] Destroy and search - Update
Chris Hayes
chris at lwcdial.net
Mon Nov 14 18:47:30 CST 2005
1) I'm respondinding in a new reply as I can't remember if I committed the
sin of just replying to a post and changing the subject, something I'm used
to amongst my Outlook Express friends
2) I worked out a solution, and it's quite simple:
Using Verity as the search engine, I index a batch of poems in Collection A.
I then merge this collection with Collection B (initially blank)
I delete the poems.
Come the next batch of poems I repeat the process, overwriting Collection A
with the new batch, and merging that with Collection B.
Collection B is the master collection containing all the indeces of poems
received over time, Collection A is temporary.
It works.
If anyone knows if and how I can do this with MSSQL full text catalogues, or
if as suggested these catalogues actually contain the entire , intact poems
I'd appreciate the feedback.
Until them I'm going with Verity.
Have fun, I lurve you guys.
Chris
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shawn K. Quinn" <skquinn at speakeasy.net>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 12:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Destroy and search
>>> If not, maybe the situation explained will make things clearer. The
>>> client
>>> is happy for me to hold this data temporarily but not to retain it. I
>>> want
>>> users to be able to search this data after it has gone.
>>
>> I could be missing something here, but I don't think this is possible.
>> Either you have the data or you don't. I don't see how there's a middle
>> ground where you have just enough data for the users to search but not
>> enough to reconstruct the original.
>>
>> Without knowing more about the exact circumstances and reasoning that
>> your client doesn't want you retaining the data, it's difficult if not
>> impossible to suggest ideas.
>
> Say it's copyright poetry, and for legal reasons I can't retain the poem.
>
> What I can do is index keywords related to a poem ID so it is searchable
> although I don't actually store the poem anywhere.
>
> This is the avenue I'm exploring but I certainly don't want to reinvent
> the
> wheel, I don't want to write an bespoke search engine.
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