Re: [htdig-dev] 3.2.0b5 Testing

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Joe R. Jah:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> > According to Joe R. Jah:
> > > htfuzzy metaphone dumps core, but it works fine with endings, etc.
> > 
> > Just a hunch, but I'd guess that you had a metaphone database left over
> > from 3.1.6, and that the newer DB code in 3.2.0b5 doesn't like it.  We
> > had put some tests for this in some of the other programs, but maybe not
> > this one.  Try deleting the databases and running htfuzzy metaphone again.
> > The same would probably go for soundex and accents databases, if you use
> > either of those.
> 
> Spot on!  I had an older db.metaphone.db left over; none of the other
> supported algorithms had any problem:
>         soundex
>         accents
>         endings
>         synonyms

endings and synonyms are generated a bit differently, and most importantly
are built in a temporary spot then moved into place, so they don't collide
with any existing databases until the new one is complete.  soundex and
accents use the same code as metaphone for writing the database from the
generated word list, so they'd all potentially have the same problem.
The scrambling of data may not have been bad enough to cause a segfault
(yet) but may have led to corrupt databases.  If you had existing
databases for accents and/or soundex in place, built by 3.1.x, before
regenerating them for 3.2.0b5, you should remove them and try again,
just as for metaphone.

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)