[PATCH 2/7] NEWS: Document the notmuch_database_close split

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Justus Winter
<4winter at informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Justus Winter <4winter at informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
> ---
>  NEWS |   12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index c1704e0..a2cd080 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -73,6 +73,18 @@ leaving Mutt.  notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
>  "mutt-notmuch" by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
>  contrib/ from now on.
>
> +Library changes
> +---------------
> +
> +API changes
> +
> +  The function notmuch_database_close has been split into
> +  notmuch_database_close and notmuch_database_destroy.
> +
> +  This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
> +  database and thus release the lock associated with it without
> +  destroying the data structures obtained from it.
> +

I haven't following this change. Who can an application take advantage
of this? I call _close(), now what do I do to use the database again?

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras