xhtmlid

Post by **Thunderstone** » Mon Jan 20, 1997 2:53 pm

I can't shake the following error message, which appears each time I run
the gw walk, on any web site, with the "unique" attribute set:

"Could not find index xhtmlid"

What does it mean?

Scott Cochran

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Post by **Thunderstone** » Mon Jan 20, 1997 3:05 pm

You only need to specify the "-unique" option once. The unique behavior
will stick until you perform a "-nounique" or "-wipe".

This is implied, though not explicitly stated, by the docs:
http://www.thunderstone.com/gwman/node20.html

Post by **Thunderstone** » Tue Jan 21, 1997 1:22 pm

Let me re-phrase the question:

I get this error when I use the "unique option". It doesn't matter if it is
a new database, an old database, one which has been wiped, etc.

I do need to prevent duplicates, in each of the databases, so I need to use
this option.

I am wiping each time I run a walk, just before the gw command, just to make
sure there is no problem with leftover info.

Scott Cochran

At 03:06 PM 1/20/97 EST, you wrote:
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Post by **Thunderstone** » Tue Jan 21, 1997 2:57 pm

You shouldn't see that message unless you have verbosity turned up.
It is harmless in any case. Its just trying to delete any old version
of the index before recreating it as unique.
(After doing -unique you will see a file called xhtmlid.btr appear in the
database directory.)
Your commands should be something like:
gw -wipe
gw -unique
gw http://the_url
gw -index

If you're paranoid, you can check that the unique index is in place with:
gw -s "select NON_UNIQUE,FIELDS from SYSINDEX where NAME='xhtmlid'"
You should get this:
NAME: xhtmlid
NON_UNIQUE: 0
FIELDS: id

If you have further questions or problems, please include full command line
examples with all options you are using.