Error in makehistory man page
Heath Kehoe
heath.kehoe at intermec.com
Sun Apr 30 15:06:41 UTC 2000
>
>> Ouch, I should have looked into the code more carefully. That was my
>> over thought. Sorry for confusing. But I'd say -u should not be used
>> for buffindexed, since it just appends index/data and this means
>> occupied buffer will grow to over double size until next expireover. As
>> to tradindexed, data (not index) is also appended and the same problem
>> occurs.
>
>Yeah, definitely we shouldn't let people use -u when it will cause these
>sorts of problems. It might be worth trying to fix these for 2.4 though,
>perhaps just rebuilding the overview for an entire group if there were any
>missing articles in that group (if that would work better for buffindexed;
>I'm not familiar with exactly how it works).
>
Looking at the code, -u should not have any ill effects when used with
ovdb. In fact, it's useful to keep -u for ovdb, because if you have a
system crash you could lose the most recent transactions before the
crash (because ovdb runs with txn_nosync by default). In that case,
you could run 'makehistory -Oux' to restore the missing overview records
to the database.
-h
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