[Xapian-discuss] Buggy checkatleast?

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:48:55PM +0300, Silviu-Ionut Ganceanu wrote:
> I was surprised to see that I get an estimated number of results of 47 after
> the first call to get_mset (with start=0, count=10) and 17 after the second
> call to get_mset (start=10, count=10). What looks buggy here is that while I
> specify that I want at least 501 documents to be checked, Xapian seems to
> fail to count the exact number of documents (which is lower than 501).

Yes, that sounds like a bug from what you've described.

> I don't know if it's relevant but I'm using boolean filters (location) in
> the query and python bindings.

That shouldn't matter.

There were some checkatleast fixes in the early 1.0.x releases, but if
you can reproduce this with 1.0.15, it would be great to have some way
to reproduce it.

Cheers,
    Olly