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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: how do the different frontends deal with displaying large
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Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com> writes:

>
> While loading the threads, if I make enough modifications to the
> database while the query is still loading (specifically 1: removing the
> unread tag from a thread, and 2: adding the unread tag to the same thread)
> apparently the query is invalidated in some way, and I get a hard crash
> in `notmuch_tags_get ()`.
>
> The thread in question has alreaday been loaded and is displayed.
>
> Do you deal with this issue in some way?
>

I think we "deal with" it by not leaving the database open very
long. The query is dumped as s-expr by a seperate process. Or perhaps we
just aren't doing the same level of concurrent operations, I don't know.

d