[Xapian-discuss] Indexing more than 15 billion documents

[Daniel Enright]

Hi,

Sorry to follow up on an old thread, but I am wondering if there has
been any work done on, or interest in, increasing the maximum document
id beyond a 32bit limit?

Daniel

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:11:54AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:

> > In particular, there is currently a limit of 4 billion documents in a
> > database, due to using a 32 bit type for document IDs, but I don't think
> > it would be particularly hard to change to using a 64 bit type here (the
> > database format might require an incompatible change, but this could be
> > managed).