From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,
David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,
Notmuch list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: WARNING: database upgrade coming
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 21:12:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9cood0l.fsf@nikula.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txawkam3.fsf@servo.finestructure.net>
Hi Jamie -
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> Hey, David et. al. I recently did an upgrade to notmuch/master after
> being out of the loop for a while and not noticing that a database
> upgrade was pending. The next notmuch new informed me that a database
> upgrade was required, but it went ahead and did the upgrade unprompted.
> Things went fine, but it did worry me a bit that I didn't know an
> upgrade was pending and didn't have a chance to do a backup before it
> happened.
FWIW it should always be safe to interrupt the upgrade; I know we don't
inform the user about this.
> It would be nice if notmuch new would prompt users when an database
> upgrade is pending, to give the user an option to abort before
> proceeding so that they can do a backup if they'd like.
Please see id:87lhy4f6pr.fsf@nikula.org for a summary on some of the
pros and cons that have been discussed about prompting the user.
BR,
Jani.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-17 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-09 15:01 WARNING: database upgrade coming David Bremner
2014-03-12 11:25 ` David Bremner
2014-03-17 17:17 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2014-03-17 19:12 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2014-03-17 21:19 ` David Bremner
2014-03-17 21:29 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2014-03-23 2:26 ` conservative database upgrade control David Bremner
2014-03-23 2:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] config: add key database.upgrades David Bremner
2014-03-23 13:12 ` Jani Nikula
2014-03-23 2:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] notmuch-new: block database upgrades in default configuration David Bremner
2014-03-23 14:17 ` Jani Nikula
2014-03-23 14:35 ` David Bremner
2014-03-23 14:39 ` David Bremner
2014-03-23 23:54 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2014-03-17 21:31 ` WARNING: database upgrade coming Jani Nikula
2014-03-18 6:06 ` Rob Browning
2014-03-18 6:57 ` Tomi Ollila
2014-03-18 11:55 ` Stewart Smith
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