Eric B. Ridge | 11 Aug 2004 23:15
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Re: Rqt for Features

On Aug 11, 2004, at 5:04 PM, Samuel Liddicott wrote:

> When maintaining xapian databases this is correct.
> Be aware that If you perform a search over multiple DB's that the id's 
> will get munged into new id's in order to be unique over the result 
> set.
> There is (when I last heard) no simple way to convert from such munged 
> id's back to the real id and real index.  This is only an issue if you 
> will be searching over combined db's.

This is a good point.  Not one I had considered.  I'm not doing this, 
but it is something for me to keep in the back of my mind.

eric

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