Re: Dealing with large collections [Re: URI constraints]

[Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Stein wrote:
> To put a stake in the ground, I'd suggest that any query only deal with
> one of the N date fields, ordering of that field, limiting to start/end
> range of dates, and applying a maximum count limit.

I like that stake, it looks good there.

If we keep this super simple, maybe we could skip the DASL-esque 
approach for basic implementations and rely on a GET with a "Range" 
header and a custom ranges-specifier. Or maybe some kind of delta 
request would do.

Perhaps these approaches are considered evil for some reason, but they 
don't break caches:

http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/main/2004/09/using_rfc3229_w.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/_exch2k_sql_range_header.asp

Robert Sayre