On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote: > Formerly notmuch_database_close closed the xapian database and > destroyed the talloc structure associated with the notmuch database > object. Split notmuch_database_close into notmuch_database_close and > notmuch_database_destroy. > > This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian > database and thus release the lock associated with it without > destroying the data structures obtained from it. > > This also makes the api more consistent since every other data > structure has a destructor function. > > Signed-off-by: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> Other than my comments comment, this series LGTM. I think adding those comments should also address Felipe's question.