[Xapian-discuss] is there a limit on size of values?

jarrod roberson jarrod at vertigrated.com
Thu Jun 1 00:52:44 BST 2006


On 5/31/06, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:39:13PM -0400, jarrod roberson wrote:
> > I know there is a a practical limit, but I dug thru the code and
> couldn't
> > see any code limits on the size of a value?
>
> There's no hard limit.  It's possible that might change though, since
> as you say there's a practical limit, and the way values are currently
> stored isn't great in hindsight.  Do you have a legitimate use for
> particularly long values?
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>

don't know how "legitimate" it is, but I am storing logical path information
in a value so I can test against it for MatchDeciders and was just wondering
if there were any limits as there were on terms.

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