From c50891f449269b7c6f235c510a472be832b95cc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carl Worth Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:48:38 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] database: Add "replyto" to the database schema documentation. Maybe ths lack of this documentation is why I forgot we were actually storing this and wrote the ugly code to fetch In-Reply-To from message files rather than from the database. --- lib/database.cc | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc index eaf52667..5b677d42 100644 --- a/lib/database.cc +++ b/lib/database.cc @@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ typedef struct { * Mail document * ------------- * A mail document is associated with a particular email message file - * on disk. It is indexed with the following prefixed terms: + * on disk. It is indexed with the following prefixed terms which the + * database uses to construct threads, etc.: * * Single terms of given prefix: * @@ -53,6 +54,8 @@ typedef struct { * * thread: The ID of the thread to which the mail belongs * + * replyto: The ID from the In-Reply-To header of the mail (if any). + * * Multiple terms of given prefix: * * reference: All message IDs from In-Reply-To and Re ferences @@ -67,6 +70,11 @@ typedef struct { * * MESSAGE_ID: The unique ID of the mail mess (see "id" above) * + * In addition, terms from the content of the message are added with + * "from", "to", "attachment", and "subject" prefixes for use by the + * user in searching. But the database doesn't really care itself + * about any of these. + * * Timestamp document * ------------------ * A timestamp document is used by a client of the notmuch library to