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+From: Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: [PATCH v2] lib: Simplify close and codify aborting atomic section\r
+Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:20:23 -0400\r
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+From: Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu>\r
+\r
+In Xapian, closing a database implicitly aborts any outstanding\r
+transaction and commits changes. For historical reasons,\r
+notmuch_database_close had grown to almost, but not quite duplicate\r
+this behavior. Before closing the database, it would explicitly (and\r
+unnecessarily) commit it. However, if there was an outstanding\r
+transaction (ie atomic section), commit would throw a Xapian\r
+exception, which notmuch_database_close would unnecessarily print to\r
+stderr, even though notmuch_database_close would ultimately abort the\r
+transaction anyway when it called close.\r
+\r
+This patch simplifies notmuch_database_close to just call\r
+Database::close. This works for both read-only and read/write\r
+databases, takes care of committing changes, unifies the exception\r
+handling path, and codifies aborting outstanding transactions. This\r
+is currently the only way to abort an atomic section (and may remain\r
+so, since it would be difficult to roll back things we may have cached\r
+from rolled-back modifications).\r
+---\r
+ lib/database.cc | 23 +++++++----------------\r
+ lib/notmuch.h | 5 +++++\r
+ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc\r
+index a3a7cd3..1f7ff2a 100644\r
+--- a/lib/database.cc\r
++++ b/lib/database.cc\r
+@@ -903,28 +903,19 @@ notmuch_database_close (notmuch_database_t *notmuch)\r
+ {\r
+ notmuch_status_t status = NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS;\r
+ \r
+- try {\r
+- if (notmuch->xapian_db != NULL &&\r
+- notmuch->mode == NOTMUCH_DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE)\r
+- (static_cast <Xapian::WritableDatabase *> (notmuch->xapian_db))->flush ();\r
+- } catch (const Xapian::Error &error) {\r
+- status = NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION;\r
+- if (! notmuch->exception_reported) {\r
+- fprintf (stderr, "Error: A Xapian exception occurred flushing database: %s\n",\r
+- error.get_msg().c_str());\r
+- }\r
+- }\r
+-\r
+ /* Many Xapian objects (and thus notmuch objects) hold references to\r
+ * the database, so merely deleting the database may not suffice to\r
+- * close it. Thus, we explicitly close it here. */\r
++ * close it. Thus, we explicitly close it here. This will\r
++ * implicitly abort any outstanding transaction and commit changes. */\r
+ if (notmuch->xapian_db != NULL) {\r
+ try {\r
+ notmuch->xapian_db->close();\r
+ } catch (const Xapian::Error &error) {\r
+- /* don't clobber previous error status */\r
+- if (status == NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS)\r
+- status = NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION;\r
++ status = NOTMUCH_STATUS_XAPIAN_EXCEPTION;\r
++ if (! notmuch->exception_reported) {\r
++ fprintf (stderr, "Error: A Xapian exception occurred closing database: %s\n",\r
++ error.get_msg().c_str());\r
++ }\r
+ }\r
+ }\r
+ \r
+diff --git a/lib/notmuch.h b/lib/notmuch.h\r
+index fe2340b..5c40c67 100644\r
+--- a/lib/notmuch.h\r
++++ b/lib/notmuch.h\r
+@@ -292,6 +292,11 @@ notmuch_database_open (const char *path,\r
+ * notmuch_database_close can be called multiple times. Later calls\r
+ * have no effect.\r
+ *\r
++ * If the caller is currently in an atomic section (there was a\r
++ * notmuch_database_begin_atomic without a matching\r
++ * notmuch_database_end_atomic), this will abort the atomic section,\r
++ * discarding any modifications made in the atomic section.\r
++ *\r
+ * Return value:\r
+ *\r
+ * NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS: Successfully closed the database.\r
+-- \r
+2.1.0\r
+\r