Re: [PyIndexer] Notes on Docs and Testing

[Chris W. <ch...@ni...>]

Marcus Collins wrote:
> 
> probably most DBMS)? The database server returns the float as a string,
> the database API converts it back to a float,

It does? why? that sucks :-S

> Probably better to use a long int for handling dates and times, and if
> you end up doing and searching, the comparisons will be faster in any
> case. 

True :-)

> Any reason not to? Alternatively, map to the underlying storage's
> date / time types if that fits in with your architecture.

Yeah, that was my plan...

> Maybe check out all the public domain works at Project Gutenberg?
> 
>   <URL:http://promo.net/pg/>
> 
> and many FTP mirrors.
> 
> There's a good few thousand books, etc., in text form. Easily a few
> hundred megs of text, I reckon.

cool... more sample data :-)

cheers,

Chris