Xapian > xapian-discuss > August 2008

Hi, I recently started to combine several (around 140) seperate databases for a single search request with add_database. I use the xapian perl bindings. Additionally I use a match decider to ...

Dear Xapian, I am writing a little tool for indexing/searching email messages in maildirs. For indexing the message bodies, Xapian looks like an interesting option, but I have some newbie questions. ...

I'm new to Xapian & need some help, many thanks if anyone replies. I did a release build from xapian-core-1.0.7 with VS2008 by using Charlie Hull's makefiles. I'm trying to test-index my dataset -- ...

hey all, i want build up a user search with xapian and php5. but i don't know how searching thru different fields. result should show all records got "cars or party or friends" in the field ...

Hi guys, So far so good, I have omega up and running, just a few silly questions: Partial searches. In omega if I enter "red" I would get a match with the word "red" but not "redhead", how would I ...

Im currently using sphinx, which has a nice geo searching interface: If given a query and an origin (latitude, longitude, both in radians), and told which fields correspond to latitude/longitude in ...

I was looking for a patch that would let omindex index only modified files, is there a central location where people post there patches?

Hi, We have an application which has "main" records, like, for example, a person, which may have several "dependent" records such as an attachment, an address, an email, a phone number, a note left ...

i want to add values (For ex pricing, number_comments etc) to the document. can you explain what 0 is here? and what is price? Xapian::Document doc; doc.add_value(0, ...

Hey all, I'm using Xapian through acts_as_xapian and would like to know why trailing wildcards do not work on prefix searches. Specifically, I have a Merchant model with a Description field, mapped ...

Hi all! I've been trawling through the archives and I found reference to an n-gram query parser plugin which some guy made. I don't think it's been included into the main Xapian distro yet but I ...

i want to query a database and sort the results by a value ( which i created like this doc.add_value(1, some_value)). the default search is really fast, but now if i try to sort the results by this ...

hi, i am newbie to xapian and am trying to get started with it in python. there is no stemmer.stem_word method in the latest python library. how do i stem words before doing doc.add_posting? is there ...

Hello, anybody out there has experience and can give me some tips about installing latest xapian (and PHP bindings) on linux Gentoo? I'm completely new on Gentoo an somewhat lost about the best way ...

Hello All , Could anyone comment on when the etch debs are likely to appear for the new Xapian version ? Its still on 0.9.9-1 and i really want to use the new version before getting stuck into ...

I have a fairly large Xapian index (3.7M docs, 280+GB in 5 Flint indexes), and I'm surprised by how slow phrase searching is in comparison to other queries. A search that (estimates that it) returns ...

is there any difference between using document.add_posting (in which term is added one by one) and TermGenerator().index_text for creating the xapian database? does TermGenerator also take into ...

I just realized I wasn't replying to the list on my previous messages. Doh! Thanks to Matthew for replying thus far. The issue appears to boil down to this. I am trying to parse a query with ...

Hello, I'm using version 1.0.7 and for the first time I'm seeing this error without being able to understand what causes it to show up: *Fatal error*: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message ...

There doesn't seem to be any *.i files in the tree. I downloaded the most recent sources via svn. Did a ./bootstrap. Created a build directory and did the ../configure --without-documentation. I ...

Hi all, I have a database of products with a indexed table, description, etc. Every product has a publisher, price, availability property and can be part of one or more product selections (just group ...

We're using Xapian 1.0.7. I have an algorithm to pre-read a query and find words that we want to stem differently than the standard stemming. These terms have a prefix of XZ in the index. However, ...

Hey all, i build up a user search and want to display fields matched by the given expression. i'm searching through 2 prefix-defined fields (user_interessts, XUSER_INTERESSTS and user_food, ...

my database is continuously updated and i need to keep updating the xapian database also. so can i use the database.replace_document method to update the document in xapian? also is there anything ...

Hi all, I've just been sent a build file for the Ruby bindings, and have thus produced a new set of build files, available from the usual place at ...