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AFSEARCH(3)			   Amberfish			   AFSEARCH(3)

NAME
       afsearch	- query	a set of databases

SYNOPSIS
       #include	af.h

       int afsearch(const Afsearch *r, Afsearch_r *rr);

DESCRIPTION
       The afsearch function searches one or more databases and	returns	an un-
       ordered list of resultant documents.

       The  argument  r	 specifies  a  set of options defined by the following
       structure:

       typedef struct {
	    Uint2 *dbid;
	    int	dbidn;
	    Afchar *query;
	    int	qtype;
	    int	score;
       } Afsearch;

       The dbid	option specifies an array of databases to  be  searched.   The
       databases are referred to by their database descriptors,	as returned by
       afopen(3).

       The dbidn option	specifies how many databases are in the	array dbid.

       The  query  option  specifies  the  query  string  to be	applied	in the
       search.

       The qtype option	describes the query type  used	in  query.   Currently
       there is	only one query type supported:

       AFQUERYBOOLEAN
	      This is the standard Boolean query type.

       The score option	specifies how relevance	scores should be calculated:

       AFNOSCORE
	      No score is calculated.  All score values	will be	set to 0.

       AFSCOREDEFAULT
	      Use the default similarity function.

RETURN VALUE
       This  function  returns 0 if it exited normally.	 If an error occurred,
       it returns -1 and aferrno is set.

       If the function exited normally,	the structure  pointed	to  by	rr  is
       filled in with the following values:

       typedef struct {
	    Afresult *result;
	    int	resultn;
       } Afsearch_r;

       The result value	is an array of results,	each corresponding to a	unique
       document	that matched the query.

       The resultn value is the	number of elements in result.

       Each element of result is of the	following type:

       typedef struct {
	    Uint4 docid;
	    Uint2 score;
	    Uint2 dbid;
       } Afresult;

       The docid is the	document identifier.

       The  score  is  the  computed  relevance	score, normally	a value	in the
       range, 0	to 10000.

       The dbid	is the descriptor of the database containing the document.

       Additional processing of	results	is provided by afsortscore(3), afsort-
       docid(3), and afgetresultmd(3).

ERRORS
       In addition to the set of "core"	errors,	this function can return:

       AFETERMLEN
	      A	query term exceeded the	maximum	number of characters allowed.

       AFEQUERYNEST
	      The query	was too	highly nested.

       AFEQUERYSYN
	      The query	contained an error in syntax.

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