Xapian discuss - Jun 2011 - Error after upgrading to latest xapian distro

I upgraded to latest xapian version and I have started getting

xapian.InvalidArgumentError: Term too long (> 245): XTEXT...


This issue was not there in 1.0.16 but it is in the latest version.

Any solutions.
thanks

On Tue, June 21, 2011 22:05, Ash Gupta wrote:
> I upgraded to latest xapian version and I have started getting
>
> xapian.InvalidArgumentError: Term too long (> 245): XTEXT...
>
> This issue was not there in 1.0.16 but it is in the latest version.
I occasionally encounter this issue in the wild as well - you need to check
that individual terms in your data don't exceed 245 chars.  Realistically,
what word (in any language) exceeds this length anyway?

Regards
Henry

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 01:05:39PM -0700, Ash Gupta
wrote:
> I upgraded to latest xapian version and I have started getting
> 
> xapian.InvalidArgumentError: Term too long (> 245): XTEXT...
> 
> This issue was not there in 1.0.16 but it is in the latest version.
This check was adding in 1.0.3, so I think it's merely coincidental that
you didn't see it with 1.0.16 - if you indexed the same data with
1.0.16, you'd get the same error.

And the limit was there prior to 1.0.3, it's just that you would get
the error at some later point - see http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/44
for more information.

Cheers,
    Olly

xapian.InvalidArgumentError: Term too long (> 245): XTEXT...

What is 245 here. 245 characters or 245 bytes or 245 words or 245 unique words
or
245 characters in a word?