Having more thoughts on code as of late. I have been doing
research into sparse indexes since I believe that is the answer
to one issue I have with long term storage of data in the archive
engine. AKA you have years worth of data and you only want a
month's view at a time. I don't want to use a BTREE, since it
would grow to being fairly large, so the answer is to just allow
someone to set intervals
and allow a jump point to an approximate row. The push down
condition code that was added in 5.0 should make this fairly
trivial to do.
On a different note I updated mod_index_rss to support RSS2 and enclosures.
What is cool about this is that my automagic tools for grabbing
files from rss2 feeds will now work with anyone who is publishing
files with mod_index_rss.
So what does mod_index_rss do in the first place? It just takes …
Aug
17
2005