References and wrapped headers

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> Yeah.  Actually, I'd settle for being able to specify an alternate
> overview location; in that case I could run it without having to take
> the server down.

> Hmm.  I've got a spare server, why don't I play around with that when I
> get the chance?  I can nuke the spool and then supply a few test
> articles, no big deal.

One thing that occurred to me last night:  Had you blown away the old
overview before rebuilding, and if not, how were you checking the results?
With tradindexed, if you rebuild the overview in place, the new overview
entries are appended to the end of the DAT file, so each article will have
two entries.  (This works fine; the IDX file knows which one is real, and
it will get cleaned up in the next expire run.)  So the old corrupted
entry would still be in DAT before the new one.

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