From efa2071d80a0240f7d7627b78812f8d1ed57a25f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:18:01 +0000
Subject: searchidx: improve error message when Xapian fails

Make it easier to detect if a partition is corrupt.
---
 lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib/PublicInbox')

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm
index 99856286..7cd67f12 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm
@@ -117,7 +117,11 @@ sub _xdb_acquire {
 		}
 	}
 	return unless defined $flag;
-	$self->{xdb} = Search::Xapian::WritableDatabase->new($dir, $flag);
+	my $xdb = eval { Search::Xapian::WritableDatabase->new($dir, $flag) };
+	if ($@) {
+		die "Failed opening $dir: ", $@;
+	}
+	$self->{xdb} = $xdb;
 }
 
 sub add_val ($$$) {
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