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* Avoid database corruption by not adding partially-constructed mail documents.Carl Worth2010-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously we were using Xapian's add_document to allocate document ID values for notmuch_message_t objects. This had the drawback of adding a partially constructed mail document to the database. If notmuch was subsequently interrupted before fully populating this document, then later runs would be quite confused when seeing the partial documents. There are reports from the wild of people hitting internal errors of the form "Message ... has no thread ID" for example, (which is currently an unrecoverable error). We fix this by manually allocating document IDs without adding documents. With this change, we never call Xapian's add_document method, but only replace_document with either the current document ID of a message or a new one that we have allocated.
* lib: Rename iterator functions to prepare for reverse iteration.Carl Worth2010-03-09
| | | | | | | | We rename 'has_more' to 'valid' so that it can function whether iterating in a forward or reverse direction. We also rename 'advance' to 'move_to_next' to setup parallel naming with the proposed functions 'move_to_first', 'move_to_last', and 'move_to_previous'.
* lib: Add non-content terms with a WDF value of 0.Carl Worth2010-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The WDF is the "within-document frequency" value for a particular term. It's intended to provide an indication of how frequent a term is within a document, (for use in computing relevance). Xapian's term generator already computes WDF values when we use that, (which we do for indexing all mail content). We don't use the term generator when adding single terms for things that don't actually appear in the mail document, (such as tags, the filename, etc.). In this case, the WDF value for these terms doesn't matter much. But Xapian's flint backend can be more efficient with changes to terms that don't affect the document "length". So there's a performance advantage for manipulating tags (with the flint backend) if the WDF of these terms is 0.
* lib: Consolidate checks for read-only database.Carl Worth2010-01-07
| | | | | | | | | | | Previously, many checks were deep in the library just before a cast operation. These have now been replaced with internal errors and new checks have instead been added at the beginning of all top-levelentry points requiring a read-write database. The new checks now also use a single function for checking and printing the error message. This will give us a convenient location to extend the check, (such as based on database version as well).
* lib: Treat NULL as a valid (and empty) notmuch_filenames_t iterator.Carl Worth2010-01-06
| | | | | This will be convenient to avoid some special-casing in higher-level code.
* lib: Implement new notmuch_directory_t API.Carl Worth2010-01-06
This new directory ojbect provides all the infrastructure needed to detect when files or directories are deleted or renamed. There's still code needed on top of this (within "notmuch new") to actually do that detection.