[Xapian-discuss] Updating xapian entries with omega

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:45:53PM +0100, M.J. van der Veen wrote:
> I'm using omega and xapian to index a discussion board. Now, I have defined
> a UNIQUE field in my index file.

Which Xapian version are you using?

> When I supply two records with the same unique value sequentially to the
> omega scriptindex binary it returns that 2 entries are added.

That sounds like a bug.  Do you have a simple example which shows this?
The index script and dump file should be enough.

> Moreover, what is the cost of an update to the database? Would it make a big
> difference to update multiple records in a single run instead of executing
> the scriptindex seperately for each update?

It will be much faster to update multiple records in a single run.

Cheers,
    Olly