Xapian discuss - Sep 2010 - DatabaseLockError: REMOTE: unable to get write lock

Hi,

I'm using xapian(1.2.2) python interface to connect remote xapian-tcpserv
daemon.
I'm starting the daemon as given below: 

    xapian-tcpsrv --port 9100 --interface 127.0.0.1 --writable ./xapiandb/

and in script.py:

    import xapian as xa
    db = xa.remote_open_writable('localhost', 9100)
    # other stuff
    # ...

script is a long running program, and when i try to run another instance,
i get :

    xapian.DatabaseLockError: REMOTE:Unable to get write lock on
/home/hinoglu/xapiandb/ : already locked

Please correct me if i'm wrong, writelock is the xapian-tcpsrv's lock,
not the clients'. So why am i getting
databaselock error? Isn't xapian-tcpsrv capable of handling multiple
clients?


Thanks
Ozgur


-- 
Ozgur <hinoglu at gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 01:27:33PM +0300, Ozgur wrote:
>     xapian.DatabaseLockError: REMOTE:Unable to get write lock on
/home/hinoglu/xapiandb/ : already locked
> 
> Please correct me if i'm wrong, writelock is the xapian-tcpsrv's
lock, not
> the clients'.  So why am i getting databaselock error? Isn't
xapian-tcpsrv
> capable of handling multiple clients?
It can support one writer and multiple readers, the same as if you were
opening the database locally.

Cheers,
    Olly