I just tried a test here with swish-e and two indexes with different 
metaname/properties and it worked fine. That was *not* the SWISH::API 
perl interface however.

Can you search on any 2 of the 3 indexes?

Jonas Wolf wrote on 06/17/2004 07:40 AM:
> They are all not stemmed, so that should not be the problem. However, they 
> they certainly have different metanames and properties defined. Is this a 
> problem, and if yes, is there any way to get around this problem?
> 
> Jonas
> 
> 
> 
> Do all three indexes have identical metanames/properties defined?
> 
> I see that error in the metanames.c file and I wonder if there is a 
> problem trying to search all three indexes if they have different header 
> info? Or is stemming on in one of them?
> 
> pek
> 
> 
> Jonas Wolf wrote on 06/17/2004 05:59 AM:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have been using SWISH::API happily to search three individual indexes. 
> 
> 
>>Now I want to search all of them at the same time, as specified in the 
>>SWISH::API documentation. However, when passing the index files as a 
> 
> space 
> 
>>separated string, I get the following error message:
>>
>>err: Index Header Error: Index file 
>>'d:/website2/cgi-bin/search/index/pmr/nostem.idx 
>>d:/website2/cgi-bin/search/index/prb/nostem.idx 
>>d:/website2/cgi-bin/search/index/manuals/nostem.idx' is not an active 
>>index file
>>.
>>
>>The three individual indexes exist and can be searched without a 
> 
> problem.
> 
>>Can someone shed more light on what exactly this error message means and 
> 
> 
>>what I might be doing wrong?
>>
>>Thank you, Jonas.
> 
> 

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