Changes to default search options
Gervase Markham
gerv at mozilla.org
Thu Oct 17 17:29:43 UTC 2002
Joel Peshkin wrote:
> Gervase Markham wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>> - Default email searches to "exact match"
>> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173567
>> Exact match searches are far less resource-intensive, and evidence
>> from the logs shows that people are typing in full email addresses
>> and doing substring searches, which is silly. If we default to exact,
>> and they type in a substring and search, they get Zarro, quickly,
>> and adjust their parameters. Better that than the other way round.
>> <snip>
>
> Perhaps the system should first search for users matching the string and
> then do the bug search for userid IN (list).
That's quite a good idea; except that I suspect the performance would
suck if the list was large. We could do this to eliminate some of the
JOINs, though - that might speed things up.
Gerv
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