[Xapian-discuss] Using flint with perl bindings

[richard at lemurconsulting.com]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:43:13AM -0700, John Wang wrote:
> How does one create an search a flint backend using the perl bindings? Right
> now I create a database using the the perl object:
> Search::Xapian::WritableDatabase using the CREATE_DB* modes.
> 
> According to the Overview doc ( http://www.xapian.org/docs/overview.html ),
> "You access a Quartz database using Xapian::Database and
> Xapian::WritableDatabase objects" but does not say what you use to create
> and access a flint db.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your input.

At present, there aren't explicit methods for creating flint databases from
the perl (or other language) bindings.

You can cause xapian to create flint databases when no particular database
type is requested by setting the environmental variable XAPIAN_PREFER_FLINT
to a non-empty value.

-- 
Richard