[Xapian-discuss] Can someone please explain this paragraph?

James Aylett james-xapian at tartarus.org
Fri Jun 13 14:46:05 BST 2008


On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:07:24AM -0400, Jim wrote:

> At http://xapian.org/docs/intro_ir.html, near the bottom of the document 
> there is a paragraph with the heading of "The progress of a query".  In 
> that paragraph there is a reference to something called an RSet.  I 
> can't find a definition of that term in this document. 
> 
> Perhaps someone could explain what it is and/or expand on it in the 
> .html file too?

RSet is definied in <http://xapian.org/docs/glossary>, but yeah, it
should be defined in that document as well. It's the set of documents
pre-decided as relevant to this query (by whatever mechanism you
choose) that is used to generate the ESet (recommended terms to expand
the query with).

I think that section needs rewriting, personally; it took me a while
to figure out what it meant.

J

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