[Xapian-discuss] Xapian::DatabaseModifiedError

[Markus Wörle]

Am 01.06.2009 um 22:16 schrieb Jim Spath:

> 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?

I think there is at least one try/catch missing in the XS bindings.

see http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/284#comment:19

Regards
mrks