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From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Xapian exception leading to database corruption
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 20:01:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y3lipsy3.fsf@dme.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2bmihes1p.fsf@dme.org>

On Friday, 2017-12-29 at 10:40:02 UTC, David Edmondson wrote:

>>> Any suggestions? Is it possible to force a new chert database to be
>>> created rather than glass? (Mostly I'd like to get back to work!)
>>
>> According to Olly Betts,
>>
>>    With 1.4 you can pass Xapian::DB_BACKEND_CHERT in the flags when
>>    constructing the WritableDatabase object.
>>
>> So you'd have to hack the notmuch source, I'm guessing around line 55 of
>> database.cc
>>
>> #define DB_ACTION (Xapian::DB_CREATE_OR_OPEN | Xapian::DB_RETRY_LOCK | Xapian::DB_BACKEND_CHERT)

This worked and the initial scan ran through to completion (making
faster progress than the glass based version).

dme.
-- 
You can't hide from the flipside.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-12-31 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-28 22:54 Xapian exception leading to database corruption David Edmondson
2017-12-29  2:00 ` David Bremner
2017-12-29 10:40   ` David Edmondson
2017-12-31 20:01     ` David Edmondson [this message]

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