[Xapian-discuss] Term Prefixes Question

[James Aylett]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:43:34PM +0100, Richard Boulton wrote:

> The scheme he outlines could work - as long as he ensures that the 
> public searchers cannot generate XPRIV terms.  If he's using the 
> queryparser, and doesn't add a prefix which generates XPRIV terms, I 
> think this should be okay (but I'm not sure I'd want to guarantee the 
> security of sensitive information this way - it feels a little fragile, 
> somehow).

Yeah, it feels wrong. I'd be inclined to look at a separate database
for the private pieces - or index at a finer granularity than
document.

J

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