[Xapian-discuss] Re: 1.0 news, and a call for testing

[Fabrice Colin]

On 5/8/07, Richard Boulton <richard at lemurconsulting.com> wrote:
> Fabrice Colin wrote:
> > Is this enough to point in the right direction ? Let me know if you need
> > more information.
>
> Yes, that helped a lot, thanks.  I've now reproduced this and have a fix
> - I just need to get a regression test written, and then I'll commit it.
>   The problem was due to a lock which is obtained in the constructor not
> being freed when an exception is thrown: normally it would be unlocked
> by the destructor, but this doesn't get called if the constructor fails.
>
Nice one !

> However, I would suggest that when you handle this in your application,
> you delete (or move to a backup location) the old database before
> creating the new one, rather than relying on the overwrite mechanism to
> work.  It should work in this case, but I'd be uncomfortable with
> guaranteeing that it will always be able to cope.
>
Okay. I will have to think about what this means in my case.

Thanks !

Fabrice