[Xapian-discuss] Quartzcompact aborts with an error

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:10:00PM +0000, Salem Berhanu wrote:
> I was merging two dbs with quartzcompact when it aborted with the following 
> error. Any ideas what could be the cause?
> 
> postlist: Reduced by 47.3974% 65344K (137864K -> 72520K)
> record: Reduced by 8.32799% 5200K (62440K -> 57240K)
> termlist: INCREASED by 1.93481% 1776K (91792K -> 93568K)
> position ...terminate called after throwing an instance of 
> 'std::length_error'
>  what():  basic_string::assign
> Aborted

I'd guess that the position table is corrupt in one of the source
databases.  For possible reasons, see my previous reply.  Again,
try quartzcheck on the database.

Cheers,
    Olly