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...i guys I have implemented xapian on a website, and it currently has about 2M items in its index. Its all been working quite nicely so far, until I tried removing some old items from the index (removing items when the index was smaller was no problems at all). When I try to remove them now (using writabledatabase_delete_document() via php), it halfway freezes up the machine, and the apache httpd runs amok spawning more and more children, until I break the php script that is trying to remove documents from xapian. >From my laymens point of view, it seems that the xapian delete document function freezes up the OS on...

I am getting this error when trying to remove a document from my Xapian database via writabledatabase_delete_document: "DatabaseCorruptError: Db block overwritten - are there multiple writers?" There might have been two processes trying to write to it earlier today, but currently only one process can touch it at a time, and I still receive the error. Is there a fast way to fix this problem or do I...

Hi All I have made my xapian indexer automatically create new indexes once it reaches X documents in each, and for each document that I add to each sub-index, I record its document_id and its index_id (relating to what index the document ended up in). writabledatabase_add_document() returns document_id:s beginning from 0 for each new index when you add new documents, like you would expect. So