A corrupt index

[Adam Sjøgren]

Olly writes:

> The .DB file is full of blocks, which are 8KB unless you've specified
> otherwise explicitly.

(Haven't.)

> The format of the blocks is described in comments in
> backends/chert/chert_table.cc and .h.

Cool!

> However, it occurs to me you could try xapian-compact on the bad
> database (if you didn't already).  That reads the entries in the table
> sequentially for which the dividing keys don't matter, so it may give
> you a good copy - I'd try that first.

I hadn't tried that - I have now started a run on the copy of the index,
to try it out.
 
> Compacting would fix this count too, but it's stored in the base file
> (baseA is the active one from the output above) and see comments in
> backends/chert/chert_btreebase.cc for the format of that.

I'm crossing my fingers for xapian-compact to save the day - thanks for
the tip and pointers!


  Best regards,

    Adam

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