Xapian devel - Apr 2007 - Re: [Xapian-commits] 8153: trunk/xapian-core/ trunk/xapian-core/backends/flint/

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:26:44AM +0100, richard wrote:
> backends/flint/flint_database.cc: Fix bug with document lengths
> in replace document.  Was using doclens.insert() to set the new
> document length, but this has no effect if the entry already
> exists.
Argh!  That issue has bitten us at least once before.  I'll audit all
uses of insert to see if there are any other instances, unless you
already have/are intending to.

Cheers,
    Olly

Olly Betts wrote:
> Argh!  That issue has bitten us at least once before.  I'll audit all
> uses of insert to see if there are any other instances, unless you
> already have/are intending to.
No, I've not done this and hadn't planned to do so, but it's an 
excellent plan.

I was thinking about working on the xapian-check to make it check 
document lengths in the postlists for consistency.

-- 
Richard