Bug: fatal error with notmuch new, second run starts indexing all over again

[David Bremner]

Leonard Lausen <leonard at lausen.nl> writes:

> I run notmuch 0.27 and xapian 1.4.3 (from the Debian stretch repo).
>
> Now that Xapian 1.4.6 is released (which should contain fixes to prevent
> the database corruption that may occur due to this bug) I will upgrade
> to it.
>

I believe the problem is a Xapian bug still present in 1.4.6. The
following patch (to Xapian) seems to fix it for me:

          https://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/patches/glass-cursor-rebuild-fix.patch

If I understand correctly Olly will release Xapian 1.4.7 pretty soon
with this fix (and another one that affects the notmuch test suite).