[Debtags-devel] tdb

[Enrico Zini]

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On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 01:12:09PM -0700, Erich Schubert wrote:

> I'd be fine with merging package names and tag names into one index,
> by using this prefix character; but I intentionally did not use
> strings in the database, but integer IDs.
> I can perform the standard set operations much easier and faster on these...
> At least I believe this is a lot faster. :-)
> And retrieving the names/descriptions for IDs is also pretty easy...

Yes, in the past I used integers as well.  However, now the tagcoll and
debtags code has gone much more complex, and maintaining an int <-> tag
and an int <-> package mapping is a layer of complexity that I'd like to
avoid.

Note that I'm already mapping Debtags' idea of packages to libapt's idea
of packages; tags with their offset in the vocabulary; everything to
their description and associated metadata [...] :)


Ciao,

Enrico

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