From: Mike Taylor Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:10:30 +0000 (+0000) Subject: New, almost empty X-Git-Tag: YP2.0.0.2~55 X-Git-Url: http://jsfdemo.indexdata.com/cgi-bin?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b2c31ffe908bb41d0660d8c8b875cd000b2caa2;p=metaproxy-moved-to-github.git New, almost empty --- diff --git a/doc/multidb b/doc/multidb new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a70fc78 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/multidb @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +$Id: multidb,v 1.1 2006-01-17 11:10:30 mike Exp $ + + +YP2 Virtual Databases and Multicast Searching +============================================= + +Two of YP2's filters are concerned with multiple-database operations. +Of these, "virt_db" can work alone to control the routing of searches +to one of a number of servers, while "multi" can work with the output +of "virt_db" to perform multicast searching, merging the results into +a unified result-set. The interaction between these two filters is +necessarily complex, reflecting the real complexity of multicast +searching in a protocol such as Z39.50 that separates initialisation +from searching, with the database to search known only during the +latter operation. + +### Much, much more to say! +