I have a question about mdb_dbi_open and the handles it returns. The official documentation suggests to me that mdb_dbi_open is supposed to be called early on and then the obtained handle should just be reused by other transactions without any further calls to mdb_dbi_open and mdb_dbi_close. The code in sample-mdb.txt does that (ignoring the final close-all sequence).

The sample also uses mdb_txn_abort to end a read-only transaction, which I take as the recommended way to end read-only transactions. The docs state that if a transaction aborts, then the associated DBI handles are closed, and so mdb_dbi_open must be used again to obtain a valid handle, which, as far as I can tell, requires a process-wide serialization of transactions with calls to mdb_dbi_open. Which feels contrary to the style described above, and, more importantly, just wrong with read-only transactions, because the need to serialize them would negate the benefits of LMDB's lock-free paradigm.

Which probably means I misunderstand something. Can read-only transactions keep DBI handles reusable? How?

Thanks,

V.