[Xapian-discuss] add_posting(): term position significance - line or offset?

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 01:38:51PM +0200, Henry wrote:
> In the event of the index structures changing, would this imply a  
> backwards incompatibility with older databases?

Almost certainly.

> Presumably this would be the case, but Flint appears to be quite flexible...

We'd put it in the development backend (currently this is called "chert").

Cheers,
    Olly