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T150-tagging.sh is failing with Xapian 1.4.6

This is (probably) a bug in this point release of Xapian, should be fixed in 1.4.7. Try reverting Xapian commit 093999529acc2f86900d91fed0c7f7af301ab94a, e.g. with the following patch.

index 80e578b85..a47f14a68 100644
--- a/xapian-core/backends/glass/glass_postlist.cc
+++ b/xapian-core/backends/glass/glass_postlist.cc
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ GlassPostList::open_nearby_postlist(const std::string & term_,
     (void)need_pos;
     if (term_.empty())
        RETURN(NULL);
-    if (!this_db.get() || this_db->postlist_table.is_modified())
+    if (!this_db.get() || this_db->postlist_table.is_writable())
        RETURN(NULL);
     RETURN(new GlassPostList(this_db, term_, cursor->clone()));
 }