> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Cromme [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:45 AM
>
> Throwing in for my sixpence of opinion, I think this is not a good idea:
> I think it's too specific to be useful for clients.
>
> - what reasonable behaviour should a client do when getting a
>   130: too many terms matched by masked query term ???
>   how should it manipulate a query to take down the count of OR's (if it
> indeed is
>   implemented like that in your DB ??
>   How should this be  presented to the end user ??

The client can do little, other than let the user know what has happened.
The user can do quite a bit.  It they sent com*, maybe they could do compu*.

> -  It is much better to send back a more generic error message -
> something like
>   a) sorry, I can not do this type of query at all, or
>   b) sorry, this query is too complex - for whatever reasons.

Great, we're back to the old Fortran message, "syntax error", and it's up to
the user to guess what they did wrong.

I think we can do better than that.

Ralph