lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdxPart.pm | 2 +-
 lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm    | 2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdxPart.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdxPart.pm
index c166078331a6f59d690182369d56a01a25657648..d8c8c8bb00e49a9a9a5b7177b0bab9d5f841452e 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdxPart.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdxPart.pm
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ 	close $_[0]->{w} or die "failed to close write pipe: $!\n";
 }
 
 # called by V2Writable:
-sub barrier {
+sub remote_barrier {
 	my $w = $_[0]->{w};
 	print $w "barrier\n" or die "failed to print: $!";
 	$w->flush or die "failed to flush: $!";
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm
index 5c104d8ec27df12fa93528834f3d396e401e0691..261f9d91a0c7e7849eb21d22b6d48c6ffaf5b4ed 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@
 		# Now deal with Xapian
 		$skel->barrier_init(scalar(@$parts));
 		# each partition needs to issue a barrier command to skel:
-		$_->barrier foreach @$parts;
+		$_->remote_barrier foreach @$parts;
 
 		$skel->barrier_wait; # wait for each Xapian partition