From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: notmuch python bindings corrupt db index (was: gmail importer script)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:26:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehiv6jxf.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121212204922.GB6187@mit.edu>
Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> There should be no way to corrupt the database at this level through
> the Xapian API, which means nothing libnotmuch can do (much less users
> of libnotmuch) should be able to corrupt the database. If you can
> reproduce the problem, it's probably a serious bug in Xapian, but it
> could also have been a file system bug or even random file system
> corruption.
One thing that Olly Betts mentioned is that there is a recently fixed
bug in xapian with respect to multiple threads in the same process
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695542
I don't _think_ this is relevant here, but I mention it for
completeness.
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-12 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-11 13:47 notmuch python bindings corrupt db index (was: gmail importer script) Jason A. Donenfeld
2012-12-11 18:26 ` Patrick Totzke
2012-12-12 18:35 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2012-12-12 20:49 ` Austin Clements
2012-12-12 21:26 ` David Bremner [this message]
2012-12-13 14:33 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2012-12-13 14:32 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2012-12-13 16:16 ` Patrick Totzke
2012-12-15 6:18 ` Austin Clements
2012-12-15 8:25 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
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