[Xapian-devel] Re: Problem with Perl bindings (enquire)

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Wed Jul 20 19:28:55 BST 2005


On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 03:46:10PM +0200, R. Mattes wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:13:44 +0400, Pronichev Alexander wrote:
> > You may use "replace_document" method of Xapian::WriteableDatabase, 
> > if you know document id. 
> 
> Err, what? I _do_ intend to use replace_document -- that's what my post is
> all about. But to _find_ the correct document id I need to query the
> database and for _that_ I need to create an enquire ...

You can also pass a term name to replace_document or delete_document
instead of a document id, and any documents which are indexed by that
term will be replaced or deleted.  It was added some time ago.

Cheers,
    Olly




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