[hyperestraier-users] Re: About textdb and attrdb

[Mikio H. <mi...@us...>]

Hi,

>    Q1. If I understand estraier.c correctly, outdir/textdb/
>        includes all input texts for the future delete
>        operation.  In an environment where a delete
>        operation is not needed, this is a waste of storage.
> 
>        Is there a plan to provide the mode not to store
>        input texts?

No.
I want to keep the API simple.  I think that many modes are apt to confuse users.
Besides, textdb is used also in order to make snippet.

>    Q2. In outdir/attrdb/, attributes is not stored in the
>        inverted index.  So the attribute-only search is
>        the O(N) operation (as in the document).  Is there
>        any workaround?

Please modify estcmd.c and make it use your own database for attributes.

> And a minor bug report.  On FreeBSD4/x86, estconfig --libs
> prints like this:
> 
>    -lestraier -lc_r -lqdbm -lz -liconv -lm -lc
> 
> If an application is linked with this option, it crashes
> randomly because both -lc_r and -lc are specified.

I see.  That problem will be fixed in the next versoin.

Regards.

// Mikio Hirabayashi