We don't need to load Xapian until we have a directory
which looks like a shard, otherwise we're wasting cycles
on memory when running short-lived processes.
---
 lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm
index 513e9f23..b393b31f 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm
@@ -75,11 +75,14 @@ sub count_shards ($) {
        # Also, shard count may change while -watch is running
        # due to "xcpdb --reshard"
        if (-d $xpfx) {
-               require PublicInbox::Search;
-               PublicInbox::Search::load_xapian();
-               my $XapianDatabase = $PublicInbox::Search::X{Database};
+               my $XapianDatabase;
                foreach my $shard (<$xpfx/*>) {
                        -d $shard && $shard =~ m!/[0-9]+\z! or next;
+                       $XapianDatabase //= do {
+                               require PublicInbox::Search;
+                               PublicInbox::Search::load_xapian();
+                               $PublicInbox::Search::X{Database};
+                       };
                        eval {
                                $XapianDatabase->new($shard)->close;
                                $n++;
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