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I've looked over the docs on remote backends, the protocol, and a bit of the c++ for doing distributed and remote searches. I've got a couple of questions: * The remote protocol is usable only as a Database, not as a WriteableDatabase -- is this correct? So, if I don't want my application to have a copy of the database on the same machine I'll need to write an indexer daemon on the remote machine and talk to it over TCP if i want to be able to remotely index? * The socketserver.cc and the corresponding xapian-tcpsrv l...

Hello list, looks like one can open a Xapian database in read-only mode and do the following: $db = Search::Xapian::Database->new("/foo/bar/"); $enq = $db->enquire("XIDblub"); the same doesn't seem to be possible with a database opened in read-write mode: $db = Search::Xapian::WritableDatabase->new("/foo/bar/",