[Xapian-discuss] Searching for "blue" gives "Caught unknown exception"

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Sat Oct 18 12:13:00 BST 2008


On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:52:54AM -0700, Rod McFarland wrote:
> It's pretty big (index folder is 190M). I just ran xapian-check on it 
> and it turns out that it had an error in the B-tree. The oddness is gone 
> since I rebuilt it, but I stupidly erased the old index so I can't help 
> out with forensics (unless it happens again, but hopefully it won't).

I've added an exception handler for std::exception to Omega, so at least
we'll know what the error type is if this happens to anyone again.

Cheers,
    Olly



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