[Xapian-discuss] xapian-compact

[Jim]

Olly Betts wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:55:24PM -0400, Jim wrote:
>   
>> Hm, let me try this again.  How does xapian-compact behave if there are 
>> entries in both databases that are being compacted?  Is it smart enough 
>> to use the newer one?  Or the first one?  Or the last one?
>>     
>
> xapian-compact has no concept of "duplicate".  All documents from each
> source database will be copied over to the destination database.
>   
Hi, Olly, welcome back.

Since I'm using scriptindex to build a set of updates to an existing db 
into a new
db and then using xapian-compact to merge them, I'm going to have 
duplicates.  Yikes!   I'm going to have to copy the existing db to a new 
location and let scriptindex update that one, which is a lot slower than 
the xapian-compact method but at least it won't leave me with dups. 

OK, thanks.

Jim.
>   
>> If there is an existing db in the target directory of an xapian-compact 
>> command, is it simply overwritten?  Is it also part of the merger?
>>     
>
> You shouldn't try to compact to an existing database directory, though
> currently xapian-compact won't complain if you do.  It probably should
> though.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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