[Koha] no result for search books

Joe Atzberger ohiocore at gmail.com
Tue May 19 10:43:36 NZST 2009


Repke is correct.  The documentation should make clear that the -r option is
for total rebuilds and not recommended for frequent crontab scheduling.  The
example.crontab entry does correctly show -b -a -z.

-- 
Joe Atzberger
LibLime - Open Source Library Solutions


On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Repke de Vries <repke at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> dear Nicole,  dear Zahid
>
> (my remarks also relate to "how to run zebra deamon" from earlier
> today where Nicole added the same advice):
>
> with an ordinary Koha installation everything is set but as per
> Nicole's advice needs the rebuild-zebra (see the FAQ she points to)
> on a regular basis to bring the wheels in motion.
> What rebuild-zebra does is taking a copy of  all the new or changed
> bibliographic or authority records in your Koha database and have
> them indexed by Zebra for searching. The moment the index is done,
> you can search.  Rebuild-zebra also checks if records were deleted
> and removes them from the index.
>
> HOWEVER: there must be a mistake in the FAQ because the parameter -r
> is *not* correct for hourly or every minute automatic running (this
> is what a cronjob does) of rebuild-zebra.
> It should be -z.   And -a is for re-indexing authority records and -b
> for the biblio records. So: -a -b -z
> This is what happens with -z: rebuild-zebra *first* checks in a
> special table in your Koha database (called: zebraqueque) which
> records were added, changed or deleted and then only copies / notices
> these and re-indexes.
> This is what happens with -r:  the index is "reset" and *all* your
> records are copied from the Koha database for building a complete new
> index: could be thousands and thousands of them.
> Imagine you start this "-r"  from scratch every minute in an
> automated way:  bad news for your Koha performance.
>
> Correct me if I am wrong but this what we found out the hard way.
>
> Yours, Repke de Vries
>
>
>
> Op 18-mei-2009, om 13:15 heeft Nicole Engard het volgende geschreven:
>
> > This may help: http://koha.org/documentation/faq/why-dont-i-see-new-
> > search-results
> >
> > If not - then I'll have to leave it to the experts to help you.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Nicole C. Engard
> > Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
> > (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
> > nce at liblime.com
> > AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
> >
> > http://liblime.com
> > http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:03 AM, zahidiqbal_isb
> > <zahidiqbal_isb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> my network administrator have installed koha3 on debian.
> >>
> >> i have added some marc records manually.
> >> when i search book in opac it display "No Result found"
> >> i have search on nabble for the error, some says to enable zebra
> >> indexes,
> >> some says to run zebraqueue_daemon.pl and some says to run
> >> rebuild_zebra.pl.
> >> i am so much confused which step to perform first.
> >> any one knows how to enable zebra index or configure the zebra
> >> step by step
> >> .
> >> i am new to koha ....can any one guide me properly?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Zahid Iqbal
> >> AD, International Islamic University Islamabad.
> >>
> >> --
> >> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/no-result-for-
> >> search-books-tp23534863p23534863.html
> >> Sent from the Koha - Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >>
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