PieterB wrote:

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I am having a problem creating an index for about 276,000 documents. I successfully created a TextIndexNG index for the documents by indexing 50,000 at a time. [snip]

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However, the database size is now 2023.7M.

Are you sure your Python has large file support (>2Gb). Check out: http://zope.org/Members/beacon/install_instructions

To check if the Python version your using has large file support enabled, start the intepreter and open a file [ f=open('temp', 'w') ] and call [ f.tell() ] it should return a long [ 0L ] if LFS i enabled. (otherwise it returns an integer [ 0 ])

Search for "LFS" or "Large file support" to get more info how to fix it.

Thanks. I got an integer, so that's the problem. Dave