[Xapian-discuss] Using xapian-tcpsrv for both indexing and searching

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 04:22:12PM -0700, Miki Tebeka wrote:
> > > However when I try to connect in another process for searching, I get:
> > >     xapian.DatabaseLockError: REMOTE:Unable to acquire database write lock on
> > >     db: already locked
> > > (Using Python bindings).
[...]
> I'm just calling 'xapian.remote_open("localhost", 9191)'. The first one
> succeeds but any connection after it gets the above error.

It's a known issue, see:

http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/145

It's fixed in the development release series in 1.1.0.  For 1.0.x, the
workaround is to run a second server without --writable on another port,
and connect to that with read-only clients.

Cheers,
    Olly