[Xapian-discuss] xapian performance

[Fernando Nemec]

Sorry, Olly, but I'm not sure if I understand what this patch is
intended to do.

Nemec

Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 9:45:34 AM, you 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

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