Testing an organization white pages directory with 2.3.21
and hdb backend, I was disappointed to find that some
search bases don't work -- 0 entries found -- where more
general or more specific bases do work. Is this an expected
result, maybe something that depends on tuning parameters
like idlcachesize?
The structure is, sort of diagrammatically,
suffix
people
students
dept1
student1
...
dept2
...
staff
dept8
staff1
...
dept9
...
So far, it looks like the following search bases work:
suffix
students,people,suffix
deptx,students,people,suffix
deptx,staff,people,suffix
and the following do not work:
people,suffix
staff,people,suffix
"staff" contains about 6800 departments. It's garbage that
people type into web forms and whatnot, every possible spelling
of every departmental unit, and punctuation tends to be somewhat
haphazard too. It builds without errors, though.
I can use bdb for this, works fine, but it would be interesting
to find out where hdb is going wrong, if anyone can think of
further useful experiments. So far I have tried idlcachesizes
from none to 10000.
Thanks,
Donn Cave, donn@u.washington.edu