[Xapian-discuss] incremental indexing

[Arjen van der Meijden]

Hi Arshavir,

Which version of Omega are you using? It is indeed the normal behaviour 
to add to the index rather than overwrite it. But afaik older versions 
(pre 0.8.x?) did it the other way around.

The omindex-tool is pretty simple to understand I think, from what I 
read from its main-method it really shouldn't overwrite the database 
when it is not called with -o or --overwrite.
http://svn.xapian.org/trunk/xapian-applications/omega/omindex.cc?view=markup

Best regards,

Arjen

On 19-7-2005 22:16, Arshavir Grigorian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a directory which has thousands of subdirectories
> 
> (/dir_top/dir_sub[n]).
> 
> I am trying to use omindex to index a few of the subdirectories to see 
> if it works before I spend the time to index everything. So, I do:
> 
> omindex --db /var/lib/omega/data/default --url /top /top_dir sub_dir[i]
> omindex --db /var/lib/omega/data/default --url /top /top_dir sub_dir[j]
> 
> However, after the second command is done, it deletes the results from 
> the first index, so all that's left is an index for sub_dir[j]. My 
> impression from docs/overview.txt (product - large example) was that the 
> above commands should each add on to the existing index, but I guess 
> that's not the case.
> Is there a way to incrementally index different subdirectories under the 
> same tree?
> 
> I also just tried the following, but that did the same thing:
> 
> omindex --db /var/lib/omega/data/default --url /top/sub_dir[i] \
> /top_dir/sub_dir[i]
> 
> omindex --db /var/lib/omega/data/default --url /top/sub_dir[j] \ 
> /top_dir/sub_dir[j]
> 
> 
> Many thanks for any advice/pointers.
> 
> 
>