[Xapian-discuss] Deleted documents not deleted

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:18:20PM +0200, Jean-Francois Dockes wrote:
> Yes, the problem seems to be gone. Any idea why I was apparently the only
> one to trigger it ? 

I suspect most people don't delete non-existent documents very often.

The problem was that any exception in delete_document() was causing
pending changes to be discarded.  That's a reasonable plan for
unexpected exceptions, as the unflushed state is likely to be
inconsistent after an unexpected exception.  But DocNotFoundError is
expected in the case of a document which doesn't exist.

Now I've realised what's going on, I've produced a small test case
which shows the problem reliably.

I've applied a slightly better version of the patch for flint and
quartz.  The remote backend still exhibits the problem but I'll
fix that shortly once I've worked out what's going on.

Cheers,
    Olly