According to Joe R. Jah:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> > endings and synonyms are generated a bit differently, and most importantly
> > are built in a temporary spot then moved into place, so they don't collide
> > with any existing databases until the new one is complete.  soundex and
> > accents use the same code as metaphone for writing the database from the
> > generated word list, so they'd all potentially have the same problem.
> > The scrambling of data may not have been bad enough to cause a segfault
> > (yet) but may have led to corrupt databases.  If you had existing
> > databases for accents and/or soundex in place, built by 3.1.x, before
> > regenerating them for 3.2.0b5, you should remove them and try again,
> > just as for metaphone.
> 
> Thanks; I see.  It'd be nice if it could be made to quit, spitting a
> warning, instead of dumping core.

Better still, it should probably truncate or unlink an existing database
before proceeding, especially if there's a version number mismatch.

-- 
Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)


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