Hi Folks,

I have a large number of stories that acre created from RSS news feeds. So, is there a way to set up Views, such that it pages by "sliding" up and down the date created (ie the date posted) without reading all the stories in the database. In this case "prev" and "next" controls would be just fine, in order to stay away from having to read hundreds of thousands of nodes just to be able to figure out the page numbers.

So, how do you folks use Views to dump out lists or tables of values, out of node types with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of records ?

Thanks.

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merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Views currently does not have a feature to accomplish this.

tesliana’s picture

tesliana commented

So, how does it then scale ?

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented

At the moment it doesn't. Now, pluggable pagers are a brand new feature in Views 3 (which I just released alpha2) of, and with that it will be possible to build custom pagers to address this issue. But Views 3 has quite a ways to go before it will be ready for general usage, and then we'll have to figure out the right way to write a pager to do that.

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tesliana commented

Thanks so much. Not only are you brilliant but you give most honest and most to the point answers, even to these hard to swallow questions.

Thanks again.