I think it means the amount of bytes from the top of each document stored in the databases.
What for?
The only reason I find is for htsearch to properly build the excerpts while displaying the matches.
See also:
max_excerpts
excerpt_length
As max_head_length increases, the probablility of the searched string to be included in the stored data increases as well.
If the search string is included in the stored data, the excerpt (or excerpts) htsearch builds will contain it (the search string), surounded by context text, what helps to the user to identify which matches are usefull or not.
If the search string is not included in the stored data, the excerpt will only show the first few characters of the document.
Regards.
At 12:57 16/08/2002, you wrote:
Hi,
what does the variable max_head_length have control over... i'm not sure what the documentation means by "For each document retrieved, the top of the document is stored".... is the text from each document that is stored in the search db/index.
?
Thanks,
Shams
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