Re: ANNOUNCE: Beagle & Libbeagle 0.3.4

["Lukas Lipka" <lukaslipka gmail com>]

Hi Enrico,

the primary reason for re-indexing all your data is that sometimes it
is necessary to change the index format. From time to time we need to
add some new things and/or fix some from the past.

To ensure that all indexed items match these new feautures we have to
drop the index from time to time. However maybe implementing a
migrator from our previous version to the new one should be the right
thing to do. This would allow us to preserve web pages as you noted.

L.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Enrico Minack <minack l3s de> wrote:
> Hi dBera,
>
>  > Your data will automatically re-indexed ...
>  this behaviour should be reconsidered, since it exposes these two
>  drawbacks:
>  1) (I think) the indices are dropped comletely on starting the new
>  beagle version, so until everything is re-indexed, I cannot find many
>  resources, though the old lucene documents may still be found by the
>  system and therefore may provide relevant results.
>  2) (I think) I will loose all web pages that I ever visited, until I
>  revist them, which I will not do when I can't remember them. So finding
>  web pages I visited once which I did not deem important enough to
>  memorize the location is a very good thing Beagle can do for me.
>
>  A solution I could imagine is not to drop the index, but to schedule all
>  resources to be updated, und replace the lucene documents with the new
>  indexed one. This would mean that the new beagle version must be able to
>  find and display the old lucene documents. In case of the webpages,
>  those lucene documents will be updated when I visit the page again. When
>  I never visit it, the old index entry will remain and ensures that the
>  page will still be found.
>
>  An alternative could be to reindex all webpages by re-fetching them, but
>  this would imply some privacy and perfomance issues. I wouldn't
>  recommend this.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Enrico
>
>
>
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