[Xapian-discuss] Searching multiple databases using omega -> database couldn't be opened

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Thu Apr 5 16:32:58 BST 2007


On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:44:25PM +0200, Taco van den Broek wrote:
> So far so good, indexing is fast and searching behaves like before. That 
> is, when you search only one site at a time. Unfortunately we allow our 
> users to search all sub websites at once which went well when we used 
> only one database, but now omega gives an error like: database 
> `foo/bar/baz/qux` couldn't be opened.

What's the query string?

The exact error would also be useful...

> Actually this is the second error message I got, the first was about too 
> many open files which I solved by increasing the numer of allowed open 
> files for the user executing the omega search.

You'll need at least 5 per database as things currently are, so that's
not too suprising!

Cheers,
    Olly



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