[Xapian-discuss] Are stub databases still supported in 1.0.21?

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:23:37AM +0100, Brian Burton wrote:
> Using the following returns nothing:
> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/omega/omega 'DB=default' 'P=searchphrase' 'FMT=xml'
> 
> While the following returns hundreds of results:
> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/omega/omega 'DB=db1' 'P=searchphrase' 'FMT=xml'
> 
> Neither return any errors.  I'm already delving into the core code to find
> the problem but I would like to confirm that it's not a simple
> misconfiguration.  Any advice would be appreciated.

There are some tips here for investigating such cases in the FAQ:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/FAQ/NoMatches

It sounds like a Xapian bug from the information provided so far, but I
don't know what might be going on.

Cheers,
    Olly