From: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC?] Compactification support
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:48:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zk5oz4fh.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87boi41xdu.fsf@nikula.org>
Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here is a small patchset adding support for database compaction when
>> supported by Xapian. Here I add a function which both compacts and
>> closes the database.
>
> What are the benefits of this compared to xapian-compact [1]?
>
I think it's a bit of a shame you are currently forced to interact with
Xapian directly (an implementation detail) to compact the database. This
set seeks to abstract this out. This is especially important since it's
not too difficult to get the invocation of xapian-compact wrong
(e.g. forget --no-renumber).
Also, in the past Carl (id:"87ocl1lut1.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org") has
mentioned it would be nice if compact would be run after the initial run
of "notmuch new". This patchset sets the groundwork to enable this.
Cheers,
- Ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-21 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-20 15:31 [PATCH RFC?] Compactification support Ben Gamari
2012-08-20 15:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add notmuch_database_close_compact Ben Gamari
2012-08-21 7:35 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-08-21 14:49 ` Ben Gamari
2012-08-22 6:07 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-08-23 5:56 ` Kim Minh Kaplan
2012-08-23 6:26 ` Tomi Ollila
2012-08-20 15:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] Produce status messages during compacting Ben Gamari
2012-08-20 15:31 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add notmuch compact command Ben Gamari
2012-08-21 8:07 ` [PATCH RFC?] Compactification support Jani Nikula
2012-08-21 14:48 ` Ben Gamari [this message]
2012-08-21 15:25 ` Tomi Ollila
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