Wenn Donkey Kong die Sphinx was fragt

Frank — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:59:43 +0000

Es gibt ja gemeinhin unter Sysadmins nichts schlimmeres, als öde, trockene und langweilige Dokumentation von Software zu lesen. Umso mehr heitert es einen auf, wenn man dann mal doch etwas amüsantes zu Gesicht bekommt, wie etwa in diesem Abschnitt der Dokumentation zur Open Source Suchmaschinensoftware Sphinx gefunden:

3.5. Restrictions on the source data

There are a few different restrictions imposed on the source data which is going to be indexed by Sphinx, of which the single most important one is:

ALL DOCUMENT IDS MUST BE UNIQUE UNSIGNED NON-ZERO INTEGER NUMBERS (32-BIT OR 64-BIT, DEPENDING ON BUILD TIME SETTINGS).

If this requirement is not met, different bad things can happen. For instance, Sphinx can crash with an internal assertion while indexing; or produce strange results when searching due to conflicting IDs. Also, a 1000-pound gorilla might eventually come out of your display and start throwing barrels at you. You’ve been warned.

Und wer noch nie was von Donkey Kong gehört hat, sollte jetzt zumindest so tun, als wenn er es lustig finden würde

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