Re: need to call notmuch_threads_get (..) to actually move iterator

[Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@gmail.com>]

Really might be the issue: Threads with many messages duplicate more
often than messages with few messages. Threads with only one message
never seem to come up more than twice.
Currently I don't have the time to track down what actually get's stored
in match_set, would be nice if a dev could shed some light on it. Thx!

Excerpts from Franz Fellner's message of Februar 28, 2016 3:26 :
> It might be I found the issue:
> One big thing notmuch_threads_get does is remove the thread_id from the
> match_set. Playing with astroid (branch ti-skip-and-load) i see that it
> is not entirely true that the iterator doesn't move. It just seems to
> duplicate some messages. There definitely are coming new messages.
> So my explanation is that match_set contains duplicate thread_ids. If
> that is true a solution to Gautes problem might be to deduplicate the
> match_set.
> 
> Excerpts from Gaute Hope's message of Februar 24, 2016 1:08 :
>> Hi,
>> 
>> it seems to be necessary to actually call notmuch_threads_get (threads)
>> to move the thread iterator from a query object, just calling
>> notmuch_threads_move_to_next (..) is not enough:
>> 
>> ```
>> 
>> notmuch_query_t *query;
>> notmuch_threads_t *threads;
>> notmuch_thread_t *thread;
>> 
>> query = notmuch_query_create (database, query_string);
>> threads = notmuch_query_search_threads (query);
>> 
>> int i = 0;
>> 
>> for (;
>>      notmuch_threads_valid (threads);
>>      notmuch_threads_move_to_next (threads))
>> {
>>     /*
>>      * with this line commented out the iterator seems to remain in
>>      * place, and if I below do another loop it will start from the
>>      * beginning.
>> 
>>     thread = notmuch_threads_get (threads);
>>     ....
>>     notmuch_thread_destroy (thread);
>>     */
>> 
>>     i++;
>>     if (i > 100) break;
>> }
>> 
>> for (;
>>      notmuch_threads_valid (threads);
>>      notmuch_threads_move_to_next (threads))
>> {
>>     /* the thread acquired here will be the first thread in the query.
>>      * it should be the 101th. */
>> 
>>     thread = notmuch_threads_get (threads);
>>     ....
>>     notmuch_thread_destroy (thread);
>> 
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> notmuch_query_destroy (query);
>> ```
>> 
>> It is quite slow to skip the threads in this way, might it be faster if
>> move_to_next works correctly?
>> 
>> Regards, Gaute
>> 
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