[Xapian-discuss] xapian performance

[Arjen van der Meijden]

I get "Database `default' couldn't be opened" when attempting to search 
in the updated database. Not when I try to search in the backup with the 
same query.
Afaik I did apply both patches from this thread.

Best regards,

Arjen

On 21-11-2006 12:45 Olly Betts wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 07:49:45AM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
>> So I think we're going to have to bump the format version of flint
>> databases before 1.0.  I'll have a quick look at how feasible it is
>> to update a database.
> 
> OK, this is a little bit fiddly I'm afraid...
> 
> You need to apply this patch to a copy of the xapian-core 0.9.9 sources
> and then build them:
> 
> http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/patches/xapian-flint-updater.patch
> 
> Then the "xapian-compact" built in the "bin" subdirectory will actually
> be a program to update flint databases from the "wrong" encoding to
> the "right" one.
> 
> NB: this program modifies the database it works on, and I've only tested
> it on one example, so make a copy to work on!
> 
> You need 0.9.9 with the 2 other patches from this thread applied to search
> the updated database (it has a new flint revision).  Then you'll be able
> to compare timings of 0.9.9 (possibly plus earlier patches) against the
> original database compared to the fully patched 0.9.9 against the
> updated one!
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>