Re: [Gnumed-devel] Interactions and stuff: proposed rules database.

[Karsten Hilbert]

> My intention was to run server-side. When a key event (prescribing,
> starting a consultation, etc.) occurs, a SQL trigger procedure on the
> appropriate table fires up the inference engine to see if a rule
> matches. If it does, it can alert the client by sending a NOTIFY
> message. This doesn't lock the client into a language, and is much 
> faster (queries stemming from the rules do not have to traverse the
> network)
While this is technically really elegant it is probably not
feasible in all situations since the stored procedure can't
possibly have all the context details available that may be of
concern to really make an intelligent suggestion.

Karsten
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