TODO: Add idea for fixing "notmuch count" to always be exact.

I had previously thought Xapian only offered an estimate for the
number of results that might match a search. But Olly let me know
that we can easily ask for Xapian to provide the exact count.
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Carl Worth 2010-06-01 10:40:38 -07:00
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@ -247,6 +247,11 @@ into the shared-library interface.
Audit all libnotmuch entry points to ensure that all Xapian calls are Audit all libnotmuch entry points to ensure that all Xapian calls are
wrapped in a try/catch block. wrapped in a try/catch block.
Fix the "count" functionality to be exact as Olly explained in IRC:
ojwb> cworth: if you set the check_at_least parameter to the
database size, get_matches_estimated() will be exact
Search syntax Search syntax
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Implement support for "tag:*" to expand to all tags. Implement support for "tag:*" to expand to all tags.