You can remove/add btree indexes manually. There is a rebuild-slot- indices function (or something similar) in 1.0
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 23, 2009, at 2:36 AM, "Leslie P. Polzer" <s...@viridian- project.de> wrote: > >> I've been using elephant 0.91 for quite a while now, with a >> berkeley 4.6 >> backend, and it's been a joy. > > Great! :) > > >> Recently however, as usage has gone up, some problems have started >> occuring. >> One big problem has been that when I run (get-instances-by-class >> 'foo) I get >> a list of foo, but with some nil's occuring as well. >> Is this a sign of database corruption? > > Not necessarily, I'd rather guess at a bug in the indexing mechanism > that has been solved by now. > > >> How do I remedy this? > > Some possible solutions: > > * upgrade your Elephant > > * rebuild your indices > > * wrap your get-instances stuff in a function that removes > the NIL entries > > >> I've tried running both the recover and checkpoint tools on the db, >> but >> no change. > > No, that won't help. :) > > >> I've experienced deadlocks as well, and had to kill my sbcl > > FYI you can prevent deadlocks from appearing. > > >> - wondering if that (non clean shutdown) is what caused the problems >> in the first place. > > I don't think so. > > >> Or is this something to do with indexes - could they be remade >> somehow? > > I think there was an easy way but I can't remember it right now... > > Cheers, > > Leslie > > -- > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/polzer > Xing Profile: https://www.xing.com/profile/LeslieP_Polzer > Blog: http://blog.viridian-project.de/ > > > _______________________________________________ > elephant-devel site list > elephant-devel@common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel _______________________________________________ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel
