[pylucene-dev] Problem running PyLucene 2.1.0-1, 2.1.0-2 on Windows, get error "To many root sets"

[Andi Vajda]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, fredrik kant wrote:

> I tested to develop a tool indexing audit logs where each transaction is
> indexed as one document => many documents, and when I run the indexing
> process I get the error message "To many root sets".
> I have tested it on Windows Server 2003 and on Windows XP and used Python
> 2.4 or 2.5.
> I checked the web and found some discussions about it and I thought it would
> may have been solved in a gcj with LARGE_CONFIG set.
>
> So basicly my questions are:
> - are there any binary version built with this setting?

Yes, the binaries at http://pylucene.osafoundation.org are built with this 
setting.

> - is this just a window problem (I might be able to use either Solaris or
> Linux insteed)?

No, it's general to gcj-PyLucene.

I'd like to recommend you switch to the new PyLucene [1], the one built with 
jcc. It does not have this problem. The gcj-based one is on its way to 
deprecation.

Andi..

[1] http://svn.osafoundation.org/pylucene/trunk/jcc/