This change addresses two known issues with large sets of changes to
the database. The first is that as reported by Steven Allen [1],
notmuch commits are not "flushed" when they complete, which means that
if there is an open transaction when the database closes (or e.g. the
program crashes) then all changes since the last commit will be
discarded (nothing is irrecoverably lost for "notmuch new", as the
indexing process just restarts next time it is run). This does not
really "fix" the issue reported in [1]; that seems rather difficult
given how transactions work in Xapian. On the other hand, with the
default settings, this should mean one only loses less than a minutes
worth of work. The second issue is the occasionally reported "storm"
of disk writes when notmuch finishes. I don't yet have a test for
this, but I think committing as we go should reduce the amount of work
when finalizing the database.
[1]: id:20151025210215.GA3754@stebalien.com
Although this default worked for "notmuch config get", it didn't work
most other places. Restore the previous functionality, with the
wrinkle that XDG locations will shadow $HOME/mail if they exist.
This fixes a bug reported by Jack Kamm in id:87eeefdc8b.fsf@gmail.com
In principle this could be done without depending on C++11 features,
but these features should be available since gcc 4.8.1, and this
localized usage is easy to replace if it turns out to be problematic
for portability.
When compat canonicalize_file_name was introduced, it was limited to
C code only because it was used by C code only during that time.
>From 5ec6fd4d, (lib/open: check for split configuration when creating
database., 2021-02-16), lib/open.cc, which is C++, relies on the
existent of canonicalize_file_name.
However, we can't blindly enable canonicalize_file_name for C++ code,
because different implementation has different additional signature for
C++ and users can arbitrarily add -DHAVE_CANONICALIZE_FILE_NAME=0 to
{C,CXX}FLAGS.
Let's move our implementation into a util library.
Helped-by: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Since the library searches in several locations for a config file, the
caller does not know which of these is chosen in the usual case of
passing NULL as a config file. This changes provides an API for the
caller to retrieve the name of the config file chosen. It will be
tested in a following commit.
Eventually we want to do all opening of databases in the top
level (main function). This means that detection of missing databases
needs to move out of subcommands. It also requires updating the
library to use the new NO_DATABASE status code.
This matches functionality in the the CLI function
notmuch_config_get_database_path, which was previously used in the CLI
code for all calls to open a database.
_trial_open can't know if the PATH_ERROR return value will cause the
error message to be returned from the library, so it's up the caller
to clean up if not.
Like the hook directory, we primarily need a way to communicate this
directory between various components, but we may as well let the user
configure it.
Most of the diff is generalizing choose_hook_dir to work for both
backup and hook directories.
Choose sibling directory of xapian database, as .notmuch may not
exist.
libgen.h is already used in debugger.c, so it is not a new dependency
/ potential portability problem.
This changes some error reporting, either intentionally by reporting
the highest level missing directory, or by side effect from looking in
XDG locations when given null database location.
The main functionality will be tested when notmuch-new is converted to
support split configuration. Here only the somewhat odd case of split
mail root which is actually symlinked to the database path is tested.
Introduce a new configuration value for the mail root, and use it to
locate mail messages in preference to the database.path (which
previously implied the mail messages were also in this location.
Initially only a subset of the CLI is tested in a split
configuration. Further changes will be needed for the remainder of the
CLI to work in split configurations.
The idea is to allow reuse in n_d_create_with_config. This is
primarily code movement, with some changes in error messages to reduce
the number of input parameters.
This is slightly more tidy, but more importantly it allows for re-use
of this code in n_d_create_with_config. That re-use will be crucial
when we no longer call n_d_open_with_config from
n_d_create_with_config.
This removes duplication between the struct element and the
configuration string_map entry. Create a simple wrapper for setting
the database path that makes sure the trailing / is stripped.
In the future Xapian will apparently support this more conveniently
for the cases other than READ_ONLY => READ_ONLY
Conceptually this function seems to fit better in lib/open.cc;
database.cc is still large enough that moving the function makes
sense.
This will allow re-opening in a different mode (read/write
vs. read-only) with current Xapian API. It will also prove useful when
updating the compact functions to support more flexible database
location.
This will allow client code to provide more meaningful diagnostics. In
particular it will enable "notmuch new" to continue suggsting the user
run "notmuch setup" to create a config after "notmuch new" is
transitioned to the new configuration framework.
Fill in the remainder of the documented functionality for
n_d_open_with_config with respect to config file location. Similar
searching default locations of the database file still needs to be
added.
The main goal is to allow configuration information to be temporarily
overridden by a separate config file. That will require further
changes not in this commit.
The performance impact is unclear, and will depend on the balance
between number of queries and number of distinct metadata items read
on the first call to n_d_get_config.
