Re: [basex-talk] path index does not seem to be used

Hi Wendell,

Can you be specific regarding what these optimizations are, or point me to documentation? Or more generally, can you offer any advice for how I should (a) detect related issues, and (b) deal with them?

I’m sorry we can’t offer more detailed information on this; as our query optimizer is subject to frequent changes, we lack the time to document all details.

Scrubbing the data on the way in may be an option. Should I be considering that?

If there’s no need to preserve namespaces, I’m quite sure this will help. As you may have seen, namespaces can be stripped via BaseX by either setting STRIPNS to true or selecting the corresponding checkbox in the Parsing tab of the create dialog.

Best, Christian