Re: [htdig-dev] 3.2.0b5 Testing

[Joe R. J. <jj...@cl...>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Gilles Detillieux wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:08:00 -0600 (CST)
> From: Gilles Detillieux <gr...@sc...>
> To: Joe R. Jah <jj...@cl...>
> Cc: "ht://Dig developers list" <htd...@li...>
> Subject: Re: [htdig-dev] 3.2.0b5 Testing
> 
> 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.

Thanks; I see.  It'd be nice if it could be made to quit, spitting a
warning, instead of dumping core.

Regards,

Joe
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