[Xapian-devel] Help with xapian

James Aylett james-xapian at tartarus.org
Fri Jan 2 12:41:41 GMT 2015


On 1 Jan 2015, at 17:56, karthik iyer <karthikiyer2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could someone please explain how exactly is a termlist table different
> from a posting list table?

These (and many others) are covered in our glossary: http://xapian.org/docs/glossary

Briefly, posting list goes from term to a list of documents; termlist goes from document to a list of terms.

J

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