Reading in a map

[Richard Kreiss]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net]
> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 10:16 AM
> To: rkreiss at gccconsulting.net
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Reading in a map
> 
> Richard Kreiss wrote:
> [...]
> >>> Too bad -j doesn't work when building demand indexes.
> >> I'm not sure what -j has to do with building indexes, demand or
otherwise.
> >>
> >> Perhaps if you were to describe what you are trying to do that dxmaint
> >> doesn't, we'd have a clearer picture of how to go about it.
> >
> > Dressier question about being more specific in what I'm considering
doing,
> > my client has complained that it is taking a bit too long for the demand
> > indexes to be built based on the selection sets that they are using. I
felt
> > that I many of the speed up the build of these indexes by pointing the
build
> > at an automatic index which is using similar keys.
> 
> Depending on numerous factors, I would expect that building an index off
an
> automatic index might actually take longer, given that it means dxmaint
> needs to read the file in index order, rather than record-number order.
> 
> > Since one cannot select an input index using just dxmaint, I would need
to
> > build the command line each time as the sorts sequence depends on when
> my
> > client's call center needs to do.
> >
> > A command line may look like this:
> >
> > Dxmaint foobar -o1 -im -s this_doc -rf 14,,:20 -e -h "building Index 1"
> [...]
> 
> Have you considered using dreport to build the demand index instead?
> 
> --
> Kenneth Brody

Hadn't thought about that.  I haven't done that in a long time.  Will take a
look at it.

Thanks for the thought.

Richard