Re: [MORG] Support for PARTIAL return option when FUZZY+ESORT are advertised, but not CONTEXT=*

Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> Mon, 20 December 2010 11:39 UTC

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From: Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
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Subject: Re: [MORG] Support for PARTIAL return option when FUZZY+ESORT are advertised, but not CONTEXT=*
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On Sun Dec 19 12:31:29 2010, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> Hi,
> During discussion of the document with IESG the following question  
> came up:
> 
> Should the PARTIAL return option be support when the server  
> supports both FUZZY and ESORT extensions, but not CONTEXT=*?  
> Currently PARTIAL is defined as a part of  
> CONTEXT=SEARCH/CONTEXT=SORT. The argument for allowing PARTIAL with  
> fuzzy searches is that fuzzy searches can return many results, so  
> clients should be encouraged to use PARTIAL return option. However  
> it is much easier for servers to just implement PARTIAL without  
> implementing the rest of CONTEXT=SEARCH/CONTEXT=SORT.
> 
> Thoughts?

It's a chunk of syntax, I've no particular feelings on how best to  
signal it's supported, so this would be fine by me.

Dave.
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[MORG] Support for PARTIAL return option when FUZ… Alexey Melnikov
Re: [MORG] Support for PARTIAL return option when… Dave Cridland
Re: [MORG] Support for PARTIAL return option when… Alexey Melnikov