[Xapian-discuss] Xapian::DatabaseModifiedError

[Jim Spath]

Jim Spath wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We recently started running into the Xapian::DatabaseModifiedError 
> problem under Perl (ticket #284), due to a change in the way we update 
> our database.
> 
> I noticed that newer versions of Xapian are supposed to deal with this 
> problem (ticket #284), so we upgraded to 1.0.12.
> 
> I now am able to properly trap the error, most of the time, by using 
> eval and checking $@ to see if it matches "revision being read has been 
> discarded".
> 
> The problem is that every once in a while I still see a segfault:
> 
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 
> 'Xapian::DatabaseModifiedError'
> Aborted
> 
> I have been unable to determine why the segfaults still sometimes occur 
> ... any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> Jim

If it matters, this is under Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake).