From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
To: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] A bug in the exclude code
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:08:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mx7kndd3.fsf@awakening.csail.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331551914-28323-1-git-send-email-markwalters1009@gmail.com>
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:31:52 +0000, Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a bug in the exclude code (found by jrollins in the
> --with-excluded series) but also present in master. None of the
> current tests were finding it so the first patch adds two tests.
>
> The bug (and test failure) do not appear in all configuations: on my
> main test machine (an oldish debian testing 32bit userspace with a
> 64bit kernel and xapian 1.2.7) all tests pass. On my laptop (a recent
> debian testing 64bit userspace and xapian 1.2.8) one of the new tests
> fails.
>
> The second patch fixes the behaviour for me but I don't see why it
> should make a difference: searches for A and not B should give the
> same results as A and not (A and B). It could be a bug in xapian, it
> could be that I am not allowed to reuse queries as I do (is query1 =
> query1 and query2 allowed?) or it could be some memory use bug on my
> part.
>
> Anyway the "fix" is small which should help narrow down the actual
> cause.
LGTM. Even if we don't totally understand the root cause here, this
change is the right thing to do anyway.
I think it's fine to go ahead and push this ahead of the other exclude
updates, though obviously those will need a little rebasing on top of
this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-14 2:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-12 11:31 [PATCH 0/2] A bug in the exclude code Mark Walters
2012-03-12 11:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] test: add tests for message only search Mark Walters
2012-03-12 20:06 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2012-03-12 11:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] lib: fix an exclude bug Mark Walters
2012-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 0/2] A bug in the exclude code Jameson Graef Rollins
2012-03-12 21:07 ` Mark Walters
2012-03-13 17:39 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2012-03-14 2:08 ` Austin Clements [this message]
2012-03-14 11:12 ` Mark Walters
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