[Xapian-discuss] Back to the future?

[Jim Lynch]

Thanks,
I'll give it a try.

Jim.

Olly Betts wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:25:40PM -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
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>>OK, I thought we solved this one a long time ago
>>
>>Exception: Expected another key with the same term name but found a 
>>different one
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>>I was getting a
>>Exception: New revision too low
>>So I upgraded everything to 0.8.5 and now I'm getting the new/old 
>>problem.  Thisis out of a plain vanilla scriptindex run.
>>
>>Any ideas?  This is an awfully large database to have to reindex from 
>>scratch.
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>Probably the damage was done to the database before the bug was fixed.
>
>You could try using copydatabase (in xapian-examples) to recreate the
>database from itself.  Because of how it works, it regenerates the
>postlists from the termlists, so it should fix this (and indeed any
>postlist corruption problems).  It'll take a while to run for a large
>database, but should be quicker than indexing from scratch.
>
>Cheers,
>    Olly
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