[Xapian-discuss] Perl binding: crash & missing functions?

[Sander Pilon]

> 
> You're limiting terms with positional info to 64 characters - 
> only URL terms can be longer than 240-ish.  I suspect you've 
> got a common URL which has length between 240 and 250 
> characters.  Change the URL length check to "> 240" instead 
> of "> 512" and all should be well.

Ok, I'll try it.

> 
> If you want to index longer terms, look at the technique used 
> in omega's omindex.cc where the tail of the URL is hashed.
> 
> > (Still, no excuse for "Aborted" ... )
> 
> Indeed.  This case throws Xapian::InvalidArgumentError in C++ 
> (I just tested it to make sure).  It looks like the Perl 
> bindings only actually check for C++ exceptions when opening 
> a Database or WritableDatabase so it's probably not being 
> handled by anything which is why we end up with just "Aborted".
> 

Oops! Now... if those could be converted to just error codes in perl, or
something less destructive then "Aborted". {hint, hint ;)}

Regards,

-S