[Xapian-discuss] Odd output from xapian-checkB

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 05:20:08PM -0500, Robert Parker wrote:
> I was running xapian-check on an index I just built, and I get a
> repeated message saying "Unexpected end of data when reading termlist."
> This happens on all databases I create, either before or after packing,
> with any blocksize.  Querying seems to be fine and I can compact and
> merge databases without any issues.
> 
> Is this something I ought to worry about?

No, it's just a bug in xapian-check, which has already been fixed in
SVN HEAD.  The flint format changed slightly in 1.0.3 and we failed
to update xapian-check.

Applying this patch to 1.0.4 should fix it:

http://svn.xapian.org/trunk/xapian-core/bin/xapian-check.cc?r1=9212&r2=9562&view=patch

Cheers,
    Olly