[Xapian-discuss] DatabaseLockError: REMOTE: unable to get write lock

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 01:27:33PM +0300, Ozgur wrote:
>     xapian.DatabaseLockError: REMOTE:Unable to get write lock on /home/hinoglu/xapiandb/ : already locked
> 
> Please correct me if i'm wrong, writelock is the xapian-tcpsrv's lock, not
> the clients'.  So why am i getting databaselock error? Isn't xapian-tcpsrv
> capable of handling multiple clients?

It can support one writer and multiple readers, the same as if you were
opening the database locally.

Cheers,
    Olly