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From: daved@physiol.su.oz (Dave Davey)
Newsgroups: comp.text,misc.wanted
Subject: help with refer/pubindex hash table size
Message-ID: <553@physiol.su.oz>
Date: 10 Mar 89 04:37:46 GMT
Organization: Physiology Dept., Univ. of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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When bibliographic databases get larger than a few thousand documents,
we find processes that use the inverted index created by "inv" (i.e. refer
and hunt) often fail to retrieve documents with valid keywords when the
default hash table size is used (997).  Increasing the size improves
the results.  I would appreciate advice on how large the hash table should
be for a given size database.