Xapian > xapian-discuss > January 2010

Hi all, has anyone used Xapian/Omega to index and search large amounts of (Unix) server logs? I'm looking to create a search application which will allow me to index and search logs from roughly ...

Greetings, Using latest svn. I've noticed the following error when performing index merging: postlist: baseB blocksize=8K items3962 lastblockS4 revision=1 levels=2 rootE9 B-tree checked okay Tag ...

Hello, We would like to create Google or Firefox like "search hints". If someone types "abc", the search system should name some possible hints. I think, Firefox does it by indexing 3-characters of ...

g' day Configured with --disable-maintainer-mode. Compilation of revision 13824 is failing with: common/serialise-double.cc: In function ?double unserialise_double(const char**, const char*)?: ...

Hi list. I have a specific document that does not handle updates sitting in the index. What can I do about that? 2010-01-30T13:58:07 Eval failure: Exception: No termlist for document 287376 at ...

Hello, I wish to get some feedback on the use of Xapian in a virtual machine hosting plan with 360MB. The processes to share the 360MB will be the following: 0. nginx web server as front (estimated ...

Hi Olly, thank vor your answer (and sorry not having answered before). Your answer helped me and I think I now understand why "it does not work". For test purpose I index one document with one string ...

Hello again, /thanks to Peter for previous response. I've been digging around trying to find sample usage of XapianTermIterator/XapianPositionIterator in PHP. The idea is to code up a test case in ...

Hi, The problem I am facing using Search::Tools is xapian treats query string in terms eg. if the query is "universities" xapian may have a corresponding term for this query as "universit" and while ...

Is there a way to get a list of spelling suggestions from Xapian? Database::get_spelling_suggestion (obviously) returns just a single suggestion. Garrett

Hello, I'm wondering about how the QueryParser parses a query containing an "alias" when the default operator is OP_AND (by "alias", I mean a search field mapped to multiple term prefixes). With the ...

Greets Just tried to create a bug ticket on trac.xapian.org and it croaked with the error: ----------- Trac detected an internal error: IntegrityError: columns ticket, name are not unique The action ...

Greetings, I've been wondering about the index format and backwards compatibility. We're using the dev version (for chert) and each svn up means that any indexes created prior to this revision cannot ...

In a recent post, someone asked about storing "metadata" in a document. My guess would have been to use add_value. Olly's recommendation was to use set_data. What are the general guidelines for ...

Hi all, We are organising another open source search social evening (OSSSE?) in London on Tuesday the 12th of January. The plan is to get together and chat about search technology, from Lucene to ...