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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: reword comment about XFOLDER: prefix
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:18:51 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2fdq7dg.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1471508311-21806-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net>

David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> I believe the current one is misleading, because in my experiments
> Xapian did not add : when prefix and term were both upper case. Indeed,
> it's hard to see how it could, because prefixes are added at a layer
> above Xapian in our code. See _notmuch_message_add_term for an example.
>
> Also try to explain why this is a good idea.  As far as I can ascertain,
> this is more of an issue for a system trying to work with an unknown set
> of prefixes. Since notmuch has a fixed set of prefixes, and we can
> hopefully be trusted not to add XGOLD and XGOLDEN as prefixes, it is
> harder for problems to arise.

pushed,

d

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-19 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-06 13:52 v3 of message properties patches David Bremner
2016-08-06 13:52 ` [PATCH 1/9] lib: read "property" terms from messages David Bremner
2016-08-06 13:52 ` [PATCH 2/9] lib: private string map (associative array) API David Bremner
2016-08-06 13:52 ` [PATCH 3/9] lib: basic message-property API David Bremner
2016-08-06 13:52 ` [PATCH 4/9] lib: extend private string map API with iterators David Bremner
2016-08-06 13:52 ` [PATCH 5/9] lib: iterator API for message properties David Bremner
2016-08-06 13:52 ` [PATCH 6/9] CLI: refactor dumping of tags David Bremner
2016-08-06 13:52 ` [PATCH 7/9] CLI: add properties to dump output David Bremner
2016-08-06 13:52 ` [PATCH 8/9] cli: optionally restore message properties from dump file David Bremner
2016-08-06 13:52 ` [PATCH 9/9] add has: query prefix to search for specific properties David Bremner
2016-08-06 14:18   ` David Bremner
2016-08-13  9:38     ` Jani Nikula
2016-08-13 11:31       ` David Bremner
2016-08-18  8:14       ` [PATCH] lib: reword comment about XFOLDER: prefix David Bremner
2016-08-18  8:18         ` David Bremner
2016-08-19 12:18           ` David Bremner [this message]
2016-08-13 19:00   ` [PATCH 9/9] add has: query prefix to search for specific properties Jameson Graef Rollins
2016-08-13 23:14     ` David Bremner
2016-09-20 21:56 ` v3 of message properties patches Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-09-21 12:01   ` David Bremner
2016-09-21 13:04     ` Tomi Ollila
2016-09-21 21:21       ` David Bremner

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