Xapian discuss - Nov 2007 - Odd output from xapian-checkB

Hi,

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?

I've seen this on 32-bit FreeBSD 5.4 and on Ubuntu 7.10, both using
Xapian 1.0.4 (I've compiled the library myself on both platforms).  All
my databases have been created using the Python bindings, if that makes
any difference.

Thanks very much, both for your time and for Xapian,
Bob

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