- foreach my $shard (<$dir/*>) {
- -d $shard && $shard =~ m!/[0-9]+\z! or next;
- my $sub = $X{Database}->new($shard);
- if ($xdb) {
- $xdb->add_database($sub);
- } else {
- $xdb = $sub;
+ my @xdb;
+ opendir(my $dh, $dir) or return; # not initialized yet
+
+ # We need numeric sorting so shard[0] is first for reading
+ # Xapian metadata, if needed
+ for (sort { $a <=> $b } grep(/\A[0-9]+\z/, readdir($dh))) {
+ my $shard_dir = "$dir/$_";
+ if (-d $shard_dir && -r _) {
+ push @xdb, $X{Database}->new($shard_dir);
+ $slow_phrase ||= -f "$shard_dir/iamchert";
+ } else { # gaps from missing epochs throw off mdocid()
+ warn "E: $shard_dir missing or unreadable\n";
+ return;