From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE7F96DE1329 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 04:32:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.821 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.821 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 2_23DI_aAUkg for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 04:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-la0-f41.google.com (mail-la0-f41.google.com [209.85.215.41]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 57A496DE025F for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 04:32:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by lahi9 with SMTP id i9so96900009lah.2 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 04:32:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=schoepe.org; s=google; h=from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:date:message-id :mime-version:content-type; bh=89ak/qR0iR5ItNdWxUaVwGfOeAZMwF9L9FqKU2KE/r0=; b=eL/tK/J89dV16ZQznsmrJUO980io7lxMsvNgAqSMSDuUESL95xMRvMCuj1BPVFHe+X bR3ebgmnJJCm91qw9iZqe+aFCYN/YcbRDniUicgh0CA2aw6hxHPIb6kFagrfamxcztp7 YPUXCERdTEGQmG7h+cJg4BNRlVmQJMp7UZDVQ= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references :user-agent:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; bh=89ak/qR0iR5ItNdWxUaVwGfOeAZMwF9L9FqKU2KE/r0=; b=hBjS85xmF73019dgsHfrhFsIhll9Covh9jZbYgB7oGlWHD7d3Z8rk5OqlOL+UYmzoT 4Q9rvL5uiSkL5v3gko/66rF6iR/30T6RMBaJatXEu5nbxHGTmeqJDmW+fRwDDSIaGkL3 pFy7DZmU/suOW03zodec7uKP6uKmxnvYhotyvGDdhIlGl2dPEvrvlLfJxDHnZsqym+7h E5zKJUUG462puI4HlGxgjEBJgGucV+fbibjYrWdHiiU2jIx4EEI3xyAS5zyNCfFmCqcL lmizY+fPyKk2YE1vRx+arkEkeNUgxvNwmdtyR0eBUHLQ4xPzep7ohImfnsLKQvmPHQ86 UQew== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmDrUqYeGvT/BjKpB6vff1pP/luKtj92Ng/qAHm+21qRE3vOyw8/sXE1skeosKAPTFOKWkv X-Received: by 10.112.53.229 with SMTP id e5mr5801380lbp.61.1439897551199; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 04:32:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cse-1075811.cse.chalmers.se. [129.16.23.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t12sm4753899lbs.19.2015.08.18.04.32.30 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 18 Aug 2015 04:32:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Daniel Schoepe To: David Bremner , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] cli/count: add --lastmod In-Reply-To: <87si7kx27c.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> References: <1439570878-15165-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> <1439570878-15165-4-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> <878u9dyq2a.fsf@schoepe.localhost> <87si7kx27c.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.20.2+64~g9f61b4c (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:32:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87fv3gx25u.fsf@schoepe.localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 11:32:37 -0000 On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 12:42 +0200, David Bremner wrote: > For me compaction is a rare event, so having to take the fallback path > and do a full dump or whatever doesn't seem so bad. If you don't want to > have a fallback path, then I guess you need to guarantee externally that > no "bad changes" happen and either ignore the uuid's or copy them > forward in your external tool. > > Mainly though I think this will be fixed in Xapian. As it happens Xapian > developer Olly Betts is here at DebConf, and I discussed this problem > with him. According to Olly, in-progress / future versions of compact > will function in place, and guarantee the UUID is preserved. I'm not > sure of the timeline here, but given our scarce developer resources, I > think I'd rather wait for Olly to fix this. Okay, I'm convinced now. The series looks good to me otherwise. Best regards, Daniel