I did a little bit research regarding the problem that joining threads isn't persistent (as described in [1]-[3]).
I managed to track down the problem until the following line in FerretIndex#sync_message in lib/sup/ferret_index.rb. d = { ... :refs => (entry[:refs] || (m.refs + m.replytos).uniq.join(" ")) } I have problems to understand what this line is supposed to do. For me, it always evaluates to "entry[:refs]" (even if that's an empty string!), losing the reference in the modified message m, which was added by add_ref. Therefore the manual join is always lost. With my limited Ruby knowledge, my quick and dirty fix was: if entry[:refs]!="" then d[:refs]=entry[:refs] else d[:refs]=(m.refs + m.replytos).uniq.join(" ") end Is this what the above code is about? Btw, the code in xapian_index.rb looks much different. Still, I'd like to see this fixed for Xapian. Regards, Gregor Hoffleit [1] http://sup.rubyforge.org/ditz/issue-4e501973cea5bd1f28739ae4cea98edce8249895.html [2] http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/sup-talk/2009-April/002050.html [3] http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/sup-talk/2009-April/002060.html _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk