notmuch python bindings corrupt db index (was: gmail importer script)

[David Bremner]

Austin Clements <amdragon at 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