prioritizing aggregated DBs

[Eric Wong]

Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:23:09AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > Btw, is there a way to quickly figure out which sub-DB a retrieved
> > document or mset item belongs to?
> 
> Yes: https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/FAQ/MultiDatabaseDocumentID
> 
> 1.4.12 added a Database::size() method which reports the number of
> shards - for older versions you have to keep track of that yourself
> (which needs a little care as add_database() "flattens", so after
> db1.add_database(db2) db1.size() will have increased by db2.size()
> (which could be 0 if db2 has no shards).

Thanks, I'll have to use the older ways...

Btw, is the XS Perl binding going to be updated for Database::size()?
Or is the SWIG binding the only way forward?

Fwiw, I also wrote about some issues I found with the SWIG binding
sometime back: https://trac.xapian.org/ticket/523#comment:13
(but I've worked around the issues and public-inbox supports both
SWIG and XS on FreeBSD systems)

I'm mainly on Debian 10, and there'll still be users on CentOS 7.x
for a while :<