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Olly Betts <olly@survex.com> writes:
>
> You mean in Xapian?  If so, a wishlist bug saying what you're hoping
> for might help it happen.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly

I filed

  https://trac.xapian.org/ticket/769#ticket

Maybe I'm overthinking it and I should just impliment some kind of loop
around a try catch block to do the open.  For some reason I had the
impression that was a bit tricky to get right.