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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: optimize counting documents
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David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> From #xapian
>
> olly> bremner: btw, i noticed notmuch count see ms to request all the documents and then ignores them
>
> bremner> hmm. There's something funny about the way that notmuch uses matches in general iirc
>
> olly> it should be able to do: mset = enquire.get_mset (0, 0, notmuch->xapian_db->get_doccount ());
> ...
> olly> get_matches_estimated() will be exact because check_at_least is the size of the database

pushed to master,

d