> -----Original Message-----
> From: SRU (Search and Retrieve Via URL) Implementors
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Matthew J. Dovey
> 
> > So, let me get this straight. To support federated search you
> > sort of harvested the content from each of the indexes into a
> > new database and provided search against this new database?
> 
> I don't think so.
> 
> What Ralph does (I think), and what we do, is to send the SRU search
to
> all databases, pull back the results and merge them into a single
result
> list.

Exactly.

Ralph