From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH 03/26] doc: document the reason for --no-renumber
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 09:36:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190523093704.18367-4-e@80x24.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190523093704.18367-1-e@80x24.org>
We're going to need copydatabase, too
---
Documentation/public-inbox-v1-format.pod | 4 ++++
Documentation/public-inbox-v2-format.pod | 4 ++++
script/public-inbox-compact | 2 ++
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-v1-format.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-v1-format.pod
index 2a6b8d3..3b0e70e 100644
--- a/Documentation/public-inbox-v1-format.pod
+++ b/Documentation/public-inbox-v1-format.pod
@@ -134,6 +134,10 @@ Since SCHEMA_VERSION 15 and the development of the v2 format,
the "overview" DB also exists in the xapian directory for v1
repositories. See L<public-inbox-v2-format(5)/OVERVIEW DB>
+Our use of the L</OVERVIEW DB> requires Xapian document IDs to
+remain stable. Thus, use of L<xapian-compact(1)> and
+L<copydatabase(8)> require the use of C<--no-renumber> switch.
+
=item $GIT_DIR/ssoma.index
This file is no longer used or created by public-inbox, but it is
diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-v2-format.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-v2-format.pod
index 7dfe329..bc58074 100644
--- a/Documentation/public-inbox-v2-format.pod
+++ b/Documentation/public-inbox-v2-format.pod
@@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ Rotational storage devices are NOT recommended for indexing of
large mail archives; but are fine for backup and usable for
small instances.
+Our use of the L</OVERVIEW DB> requires Xapian document IDs to
+remain stable. Thus, use of L<xapian-compact(1)> and
+L<copydatabase(8)> require the use of C<--no-renumber> switch.
+
=head2 OVERVIEW DB
Towards the end of v2 development, it became apparent Xapian did
diff --git a/script/public-inbox-compact b/script/public-inbox-compact
index d22e403..395eec3 100755
--- a/script/public-inbox-compact
+++ b/script/public-inbox-compact
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ sub commit_changes ($$$) {
$im->lock_release;
remove_tree("$old/old") or die "failed to remove $old/old: $!\n";
}
+
+# we rely on --no-renumber to keep docids synched to NNTP
my @compact = qw(xapian-compact --no-renumber);
if ($v == 2) {
require PublicInbox::V2Writable;
--
EW
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-23 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-23 9:36 [PATCH 00/26] xcpdb: ease Xapian DB format migrations Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 01/26] t/convert-compact: skip on missing xapian-compact(1) Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 02/26] v1writable: retire in favor of InboxWritable Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 04/26] search: reenable phrase search on non-chert Xapian Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 05/26] xapcmd: new module for wrapping Xapian commands Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 06/26] admin: hoist out resolve_inboxes for -compact and -index Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 07/26] xapcmd: support spawn options Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 08/26] xcpdb: new tool which wraps Xapian's copydatabase(1) Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 09/26] xapcmd: do not cleanup on errors Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 10/26] admin: move index_inbox over Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 11/26] xcpdb: implement using Perl bindings Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 12/26] xapcmd: xcpdb supports compaction Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 13/26] v2writable: hoist out log_range sub for readability Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 14/26] xcpdb: use fine-grained locking Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 15/26] xcpdb: implement progress reporting Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 16/26] xcpdb: cleanup error handling and diagnosis Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 17/26] xapcmd: avoid EXDEV when finalizing changes Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 18/26] doc: xcpdb: update to reflect the current state Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 19/26] xapcmd: use "print STDERR" for progress reporting Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 20/26] xcpdb: show re-indexing progress Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:36 ` [PATCH 21/26] xcpdb: remove temporary directories on aborts Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:37 ` [PATCH 22/26] compact: reuse infrastructure from xcpdb Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:37 ` [PATCH 23/26] xcpdb|compact: support some xapian-compact switches Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:37 ` [PATCH 24/26] xapcmd: cleanup on interrupted xcpdb "--compact" Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:37 ` [PATCH 25/26] xcpdb|compact: support --jobs/-j flag like gmake(1) Eric Wong
2019-05-23 9:37 ` [PATCH 26/26] xapcmd: do not reset %SIG until last Xtmpdir is done Eric Wong
2019-05-23 10:37 ` [PATCH 27/26] doc: various updates to reflect current state Eric Wong
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