Murat Ali Bayir wrote:
Hi everbody, I want to know how mergelinkdb function works. Assume
that we have two linkdb in the first one
the URLx is referred by URLa, URLb and URLc in the second one same
URLx is refferred by URLa, URLk. I want to
know structure of the output linkdb.
does it contains one entry for URLx referred by URLa, URLb, URLc and
URLk or
just append second linkdb to first one and contains two entry for URLx
given below
URLx <- URLa URLb, URLc and
..
..
..
URLx <- URLa URLk
No, these two entries are merged into one (that's why the name :) ). At
any given time, in a valid linkdb there is exactly zero or one entries
for any given target URL.
You should note that there is a limit set on how many inlinks we are
going to store for any given URL (db.max.inlinks) - which may lead to
some surprises. If e.g. the linkdbA already hit that limit, and the
other linkdbB didn't, then two scenarios are possible - either you get
the list just containing all links from linkdbA and none from linkdbB,
or you get the list containing all links from linkdbB plus some links
from linkdbA ...
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Best regards,
Andrzej Bialecki <><
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