Grouper Developers Forum

["blair christensen." <>]

On 7/7/07, GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
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 wrote:
> > 4.  Performing a group search takes about 20-30 seconds even if no
> > results are returned.
> That is less surprising. Given the number of groups you have any search is
> likely to return a large number of results - however, depending on the
> context the UI will then try to filter* the list - which may result in no
> results.
>
> *By checking if the current Subject has a specific privilege, or one of a
> set of privileges.
>
> I think the API is doing a %term% type match which may not be efficient
> against a large database
>
> If you do a search which cannot possibly return a result e.g. ZZZZZZZ, how
> long does that take?

Gary: What API methods is the UI using for making these group
searches?  At least two methods (so far) that I've checked on will
result in full table scans.