[Xapian-discuss] omindex options

[Srijon Biswas]

Hi Eric, James.

Apparently (and obviously) I did not look hard enough :) I was searching the
wiki for this. Thanks for the link and the explanations.

Thanks,
Srijon.

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From: "Eric Voisard" <eric.voisard at atisuher.ch>
To: <xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:27:41 +0200
Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] omindex options
Hi Srijon,

> I have tried to keep the code as close to possible to the omindex native
> code, but am facing a bit of confusion: what exactly is the reason for
> omindex to take in a base directory AND a subdirectory. In other words,
what
> scenario is possible that cannot be covered by just passing in a directory
> and a corresponding mapping to the url.
>
> * I _know_ there was something I read somewhere about this - but could not
> find it when I needed it (now). If someone has a link, that would help as
> well.

As james said, it's the "sites" concept of omindex that is described on
the Omega overview page: http://www.xapian.org/docs/omega/overview.html

I actually used this to divide my indexing of large directory trees, to
avoid omindex eating up all my computer's memory and then failing to
index some documents, when it had to do a large tree in one single pass.
It proved useful.

Eric