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| author | Robin Houston <robin.houston@gmail.com> | 2012-01-19 13:50:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Robin Houston <robin.houston@gmail.com> | 2012-01-19 13:50:26 +0000 |
| commit | 22b2db48c005be1d1b87dd6b58f830a2a74d2108 (patch) | |
| tree | 2355e7d73515b38ecd0edf1616498f4e62b82cd4 /spec/controllers/user_controller_spec.rb | |
| parent | 69a2ea41c7c723ba11690ee6ed148cda012f8358 (diff) | |
Limit Xapian wildcard expansions
Wildcard searches in Xapian can expand uncontrollably, consuming
all available RAM and crashing the server. This has been a real
problem on WhatDoTheyKnow.com. The underlying issue is tracked
in http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/350
This changeset imposes a limit on wildcard expansion. The type-ahead
search will first try a wildcard query, and if that fails because
of too much expansion will fall back to a plain non-wildcard search.
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