Re: [PATCH] TODO: date range queries - check

[Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>]

On Sat, 08 Dec 2012, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08 2012, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>> Patch? Concrete wording suggestion?
>
> How about:
>
> It would be nice to not require both endpoints to be specified in date
> searches.  For example it would be nice to be able to say things like
> "date:2009-01-1", to specify a search over a particular day, or
> "since:'1 month' to specify an open-ended range, and have the other
> endpoint be implicit.  To do any of this we're probably going to need to
> break down an write our own parser for the query string rather than
> using Xapian's QueryParser class.

FWIW, this means, in practice:

Make date:<expr> an alias for date:<expr>..<expr>

Make since:<expr> an alias for date:<expr>..

Make until:<expr> an alias for date:..<expr>

We'll either need to write our own query parser or some new features to
upstream Xapian to do any of these.


BR,
Jani.