Xapian discuss - Oct 2008 - Problem opening stub database for writing

I'm using Xapian 1.0.8 and the python bindings.

I have a flint database which I can open fine by doing the following:

db_name = '/path/to/db/db-name'
database = xapian.WritableDatabase(db_name, xapian.DB_OPEN)

However, if I have stub file at '/path/to/db/db-stub' containing the
following:

flint /path/to/db/db-name

db_name = '/path/to/db/db-stub'
database = xapian.WritableDatabase(db_name, xapian.DB_OPEN)

returns the following:

DatabaseOpeningError: No flint database found at path `/path/to/db/db-stub'

I can use xapian.open_stub(db_name) but then I can't write to the database.

What's the correct way of opening a stub database for writing?

Ben.

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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:37:33AM +0000, Ben Phillips
wrote:
> What's the correct way of opening a stub database for writing?
Sorry, that's not supported in 1.0.x.  Support for it has already been
added to trunk though.

Best workaround I can think of for now is to open and parse the file
yourself to get the database path - it isn't a complex format at least.

Cheers,
    Olly