[Xapian-discuss] Re: Trying to use db.reopen()

[Fabrice Colin]

> From: Olly Betts <olly at survex.com>
> This whole situation will go away when I finish implementing the new
> flint backend.  There a reader will be able to signal that it's using a
> particular B-tree revision, and the writer will then know not to discard
> that revision until the reader has finished using it.
>
Does this mean it will be safe to have N readers and 1 writer accessing the
index concurrently without extra locking ?

Fabrice