[atlas-l] thread - how to query a Collector ( parsing SQL , CO / CAS )

[jer]

> Ahh, so that's what I seem to have missed in the definition of a
> Collector - that it has structured content only.
> As the famous Emily Litella, on Saturday Night Live, used to say  
> "Ohh!,
> ....Ne-e-ver M-i-ind!"

The "definition" is only really happening through the discussion here  
at the moment so no worries, it all helps :)

> So we don't expect to do queries that involve text matching when
> querying a collector, right?

In a general sense of match the exact phrase "the cat and the dog ran  
away" or the ilk of full-text matching, not really.  I consider that  
secondary if at all in scope for the general Collector.

> I still seem to be thinking of a collector as the analog of the  
> "search
> engine" as we know it nowand I need to reset my thinking on that.

I'm trying to separate all the functions including the various query  
types first, before deciding that any of them can/should be re- 
combined.  So, consider a Collector to be a specific keyword- 
 >knuggets ranked mapping, with various other fixed attributes (time,  
host, location, etc) that can filter the results.

Jer