[Xapian-discuss] chert-update creates a db with some errors

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 03:16:00PM +0100, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> Olly, I'm sorry to bother you again. I have a different error converting
> databases with some termlist, (the two patches are correctly applied).

No problem - clearly I didn't test the updater very thoroughly in the
first place!
 
> # xapian-chert-update old_db new_db
> postlist: Reduced by 56.927% 1808K (3176K -> 1368K)
> record: Reduced by 14.2857% 32K (224K -> 192K)
> termlist ..../xapian-chert-update: DatabaseCorruptError: Bad docid key

Looks like it's the entries which store the value slots used for each
document.  Please try this (untested) fix:

http://trac.xapian.org/changeset/15309

> Let me know if you need another database fore some tests, the former had not
> the termlist.

If that doesn't fix it, an example would be useful.

Cheers,
    Olly