> From: "Matthew J. Dovey" <>
>
> We would still need to somehow indicate to the server whether the
> request is a normal search or an index scan.
I see no reason why. We're talking about (abstractly) modeling the terms
as records in a database. We could put information in explain to describe
the indexes, but I can't see why any special flag needs to go in the
request.
> iii) have a flag in the query itself (as per Ray's suggestion) to
> indicate whether we are searching the full database or an index.
What in my proposed approach suggests that?
--Ray