[Xapian-discuss] Xapian 1.0.18 released

Jesper Krogh jesper at krogh.cc
Thu Mar 11 17:24:00 GMT 2010


Olly Betts wrote:
> I've uploaded Xapian 1.0.18 (including Search::Xapian 1.0.18.0), which
> as usual you can download from:
> 
> http://xapian.org/download
> 
> The most notable changes in this release are:
> 
> QueryParser:
> 
> * Improve support for languages such as Burmese which use Unicode enclosing
>   mark and combining spacing mark characters. 
> 
> Flint backend:
> 
> * When updating documents, don't update posting entries which haven't changed
>   (ticket#250). 

In my application a prepare a "new" document, search the index for and
existing one and call replace_document with the new document if it
should be replaced. If the documents does not differ much, will the
optimization apply in this case? Or is it only when doing modifications
to existing documents?

-- 
Jesper



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