On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> One of the worst bugs in htdig-3.1.0b1 is seen most obviously with the META
> descriptions. If a document doesn't have a META description, the database
> picks up another (seemingly random) description from another file.
>
> At first, I thought it might have been my implementation of the new
> DocMetaDsc field in the DatabaseRef object. I eliminated that, moved on to
> Strings, then DocumentRef. Through my debugging I have traced it to the
> point between the Serialize and Deserialize calls made by DocumentDB. This
> puts the bug firmly in the Berkeley DB code, most likely on our end (i.e.
> the DB2_db.cc file).
Do these problems also appear in 3.0.8b2 with Berkeley patch (db-2.3.16)?
As far as I know the routines in DB2_db.cc are a sort of
one-on-one copy op DB_db.cc and GDBM_db.cc.
> I have now discovered this bug in other fields as well--DocTitle (some
> titles that actually exist seem to disappear), DocHead (documents marked
> noindex generate no DocHead, but other excerpts are inserted into the db),
> and probably others as well.
>
> If anyone can shed some light on this bug, I'd greatly appreciate it.
--jesse
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