[Koha] Search operators

[Stefano Bargioni]

Dear Jared, good job.
In my opinion, at least data that are or can be autoincrement (bib and auth system numbers, barcodes) require greater than and less than operators.
Bye. Stefano

On 06/dic/2012, at 18.18, Jared Camins-Esakov wrote:

> As many of you know, I have been working on rewriting Koha's search code so
> that it is more palatable than a plate of burned nine-day-old spaghetti.
> The initial part of the development is nearing completion, and I look
> forward to submitting a patch to the community for sign off[1].
> 
> In the course of the first section of the development, I have run into an
> interesting question. We currently support greater than and less than
> operators in our searches, but I cannot think of anywhere we might want to
> use them other than with dates. Does anyone have any scenarios where a
> greater than/less than operator would actually be useful in a bibliographic
> or authority search (other than in date searches)?
> 
> Regards,
> Jared