From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Lucas <luc.lists@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Bug: counting messages twice after excluding tags yields different results
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 07:41:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvd07xy8.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <147263183913.27784.12274024193186585889@mbp>
Lucas <luc.lists@gmail.com> writes:
> Dear list members,
>
> I think I found a bug or at least undocumented behaviour in the notmuch
> library. I would like to report this here. Originally I found the bug
> in the python library but I attached a c program that shows the same
> behaviour. I am running notmuch version 0.22.1 from the Arch Linux
> repositories.
>
> The setup:
> 1. chose a query string, e.g. "is:inbox or is:spam"
> 2. chose a tag to exclude that is matched by the query, e.g. "spam"
> 3. open the database
> 4. create a query
> 5. check the message or thread count any number of times
> 6. exclude the tag from the query
> 7. check the message or thread count any number of times
>
> The result:
> - In step 5 the result stays the same if I repeatedly call
> notmuch_query_count_messages_st or query.count_messages.
> - In step 7 the count is different between the first call and all
> subsequent calls. But neither seems correct to me. I always get the
> same number as in step 5 for the first call and 0 afterwards.
This bug should be fixed in commit dfacfe14, which will be part of
notmuch 0.24. Thanks for your clear report and test case.
d
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-05 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-31 8:23 Bug: counting messages twice after excluding tags yields different results Lucas
2016-08-31 9:21 ` Franz Fellner
2016-08-31 11:16 ` Lucas Hoffmann
2016-08-31 12:20 ` David Bremner
2016-08-31 12:56 ` Franz Fellner
2016-09-01 1:16 ` David Bremner
2016-09-03 12:50 ` [PATCH] lib doc: group query functions, add disclaimer David Bremner
2016-09-05 10:57 ` Bug: counting messages twice after excluding tags yields different results David Bremner
2017-03-05 11:41 ` David Bremner [this message]
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