[Xapian-discuss] change the doc_id

[Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann]

Alexander Lind schrieb:
> I let my db make its own unique ID per index:able document, and then 
> when the doc is inserted into the xapian index, I let xapian set its 
> own doc_id and I then save xapians doc_id in the db with the relevant 
> document.
> Much easier and way less error prone than trying to keep the db:s and 
> xapians unique id:s in synch, I believe.
i can do the same ... but this would be not perfect for my scenario :(
the filename is the doc_id and i dont want to rename millions of
documents during indexing or creating symlinks.


>
> Alec
>
> Felix Antonius Wilhelm Ostmann wrote:
>> is there any way to decide the doc_id from one document?
>> something like:
>>
>> int id = 101;
>> db.add_document(doc,id);
>>
>> i have one uniq_id like the doc_id and i want doc_id = uniq_id. when 
>> i delete one uniq_id and i generate the index new i have a problem :( 
>> or should i insert empty documents for deleted ids? or is this a bad 
>> idea to use the doc_id, should i save my own uniq_id in a value and 
>> ignore the doc_id in my system?
>>
>
>


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