concern... wishlist item...

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting John Esak (Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:59:12 -0400):

>
> Someone came into the FP Room today and was telling me about a "bug" in
> the lookup wizard. It wasn't showing him his indexes when he pressed F6.
> We learned that he was doing a lookup to a qualifier.  This, of course,
> was the reason he wasn't seeing his indexes. The rcabe program has no
> concept that you are going to be running in this qualifier or that. I
> had him put an @qualname on the filename prompt in the wizard and his
> indexes immediately showed up under F6.
>
> I explained to him that the program couldn't/shouldn't just show you
> *all* the possible indexs because there can be a virtually unlimted
> number of qualifiers. I suggested that maybe a field for qualifier be
> put up after F6 is pressed so that a specific qualifier is typed in,
> only that set of indexes would appear. If left blank, the main
> unqualified set of indexes would show.
>
> I'll go find the new way to submit a wish list item to FP Tech and do
> it.

I would suggest that having indexes built differently, depending on
which qualifier you're in, is a "Bad Thing[tm]".

For example, having indexfoo.A built on last_name and indexbar.A built
on zipcode makes no sense to me, nor would I suspect that it would make
sense to anyone else.

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