[Xapian-discuss] Deleted documents not deleted

[Richard Boulton]

Jean-Francois Dockes wrote:
> I suppose that documents move or go away more frequently in a desktop than
> in a www context. 

That seems reasonable.

> When walking the 'updated' array, you're bound to trigger DocNotFound
> errors, if any docs were deleted during previous indexing passes.

> Might this have also caused document additions to be lost if a flush() was
> not performed before the purge pass ? I had had the 'feeling' at some point
> that this sometimes happened ...

My understanding is that that could indeed have happened.

-- 
Richard