Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add flush/reopen methods to notmuch_database_t

[Adrien Bustany <adrien@bustany.org>]

Le 20/10/2012 18:49, Ethan Glasser-Camp a écrit :
> Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Adrien Bustany <adrien@bustany.org> wrote:
>>> The code of the patches in unchanged, but the formatting issues are now
>>> hopefully fixed.
>>
>> Hi Adrien, please check at what version flush and reopen have been
>> introduced to xapian. If they are new-ish (I don't know, didn't have the
>> time to check), please add appropriate #ifdefs. [1] lays the groundwork
>> for this. We'll also need to decide what is the minimum xapian version
>> required in general, i.e. features earlier than that don't need
>> conditional compilation.
>
> Hi! The new versions of these patches are still pretty trivial and they
> still look OK to me, but based on Jani's prompting I decided to look up
> the methods. Seems that flush() is a very old (pre-1.1.0, 2009-04) name
> for commit(), which is the preferred name these days. You should
> probably therefore rename the function notmuch_database_commit, and have
> it call the WritableDatabase::commit() method.
>
> reopen() is a very very old method, seems like it has been around since
> 2004.
>
> So I think Adrien is safe from having to do version checks, but we
> should probably use commit() instead of flush().
>
> Ethan
>

Thanks for checking that! Sorry for the late answer, I had a hard time 
keeping on top of things lately...