[Xapian-devel] Initial patch for ExternalPostList

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Sat Jun 3 18:12:27 BST 2006


On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 05:56:33PM +0100, James Aylett wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 05:09:12PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> 
> > * Restricting search results to those the user has permission to see.
> > * Sometimes sites want to be able to quickly remove pages
> 
> A common combination of the two is the idea of new pages being created
> first on a staging site, and only later put live. If you're running a
> full revisioned system it gets more complex than this, but I imagine
> this kind of thing will help considerably if anyone, eg, wanted to
> make Xapian available as a search system for something like Drupal.

You mean index a page once it's in the system, but not allow it to
actually appear in the results until it goes live, thus allowing
apparently instant indexing of new pages but with the speed benefits
of adding documents in batches?

Cheers,
    Olly



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