[Xapian-devel] Document ID 0 is invalid... but not always...

[Richard Boulton]

Daniel Ménard wrote:
> Note: this is rather long and not very important and I don't want to 
> prevent the team from releasing version 1.0, so go on reading only if 
> you have too much free time !!! ;-)
> 
> 0 is not a valid document ID, never, ever, but I just found a special 
> case in which xapian will create a record and return 0 for the newly 
> created record.
> 
> In fact, I was "hacking", trying to store metadata in a "special" record 
> with docId "-1"...
> I know, this is bad, but what is interesting is what xapian does in such 
> a situation...

Hmm - this should probably be added as a bug to the issue tracker - we 
should detect the overflow and report and appropriate error.

-- 
Richard