[Xapian-discuss] postlist: Tag containing meta information is corrupt.

[Henry]

On Mon, January 18, 2010 13:14, Olly Betts wrote:
>> postlist:
>> baseB blocksize=8K items=33962 lastblock=534 revision=1 levels=2
>> root=459 B-tree checked okay
>> Tag containing meta information is corrupt.
>> postlist table errors found: 1
>
> Um, that looks like the output from xapian-check, which checks for
> database format errors - xapian-compact does merging.

Yes,  it is output from xapian-check-1.1 which is used as the confirmation
part of the merge process.

> Perhaps you need to explain exactly what you did to get this error, and
> also which backend you're using.

Index some content.
Merge it with a master database (xapian-compact-1.1 to merge,
xapian-check-1.1 to check).

Using chert backend, xapian revision 13835, on Linux.

In my previous post, I mentioned that there may have been an issue with
xapian not being in sync on all the machines -- this now turns out not to
be the case.  I seem to be getting this across the board.

To summarise:
  indexing completes without error.
  searching -appears- to be OK (haven't tried with a large DB).
  xapian-check-1.1 reports postlist corruption.

Any pointers would be appreciated.  I'm thinking a corrupt postlist table
may present a problem?

Thanks
Henry