Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 08:42 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> Instead of whatever database you are currently using to store metadata,
> use a triplestore.  You are half-way there with the current (pseudocode)
> Subject.AddProperty("dc.title", sometitle).

These are currently stored as separate fields in the text index, which
is why you can search for "joe eggplant" and have it match both metadata
and contents (ie, "joe" in an email's "From" field and "eggplant" in the
body of the email).

Once you split up the stores it gets a lot less efficient to do free
text searches like that because you have to intersect the results.

Joe