On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 08:40:00PM -0400, V S P wrote:
> can Xapian, at least return the line number where the matches where
> found (the text files are a few, but big)
No, Xapian only stores word offsets.
> also is there a way to 'batch up' a search to send multiple queries in
> one shot ?
No.
Cheers,
Olly