[Xapian-discuss] Always returning ALL the documents matching a query

[tata 668]

Many thanks!

Julien


James Aylett wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 05:52:57PM -0500, tata 668 wrote:
> 
>> Let's say I always want Xapian to return me ALL the documents
>> matching a query, not a subset. What is the best way to achieve
>> that?
> 
> You could request an MSet of size the number of documents in your
> database -- $db->get_doccount() in PHP will give you this.
> 
> Of course, if you end up getting lots of matching documents, you could
> well bomb out of a PHP request by running out of memory or something,
> but that's an entirely different issue.
> 
> J
>