We had a fairly ugly violation of modularity with the top-level
Makefile.local isntalling everything, (even when the build commands
for the library were down in lib/Makefile.local).
For the case of adding a file that already exist, (with the same
filename). In this case, nothing will happen to the database, but
that wasn't clear before.
We were previously maintaining two lists of the child Makefile
fragments---one for the includes and another for the dependencies. So,
of course, they drifted and the dependency list wasn't up to date.
We fix this by adding a single subdirs variable, and then using GNU
Makefile substitution to generate both the include and the dependency
lists.
Some side effect of this change caused the '=' assignment of the dir
variable to not work anymore. I'm not sure why that is, but using ':='
makes sense here and fixes the problem.
Commit cd467caf renamed notmuch_query_search to notmuch_query_search_messages.
Commit 1ba3d46f created notmuch_query_search_threads. We better keep the docs
of notmuch_query_create consistent with those changes.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Carrijo <fcarrijo@yahoo.com.br>
Edited-by: Carl Worth to explicitly list the full name of each
function being referenced.
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'.
Thanks to Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> for pointing out the
correct fix, which I verified in the freely-available WG14/N1124 draft
(from the C99 working group) which is available here:
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf
The sequential identifiers have the advantage of being guaranteed to
be unique (until we overflow a 64-bit unsigned integer), and also take
up half as much space in the "notmuch search" output (16 columns
rather than 32).
This change also has the side effect of fixing a bug where notmuch
could block on /dev/random at startup (waiting for some entropy to
appear). This bug was hit hard by the test suite, (which could easily
exhaust the available entropy on common systems---resulting in large
delays of the test suite).
If we had external users of this filter then they might expect some of
these macros to exist. But since this is just internal, that's just
unneeded noise.
With modern MIME attachments, we're already avoiding indexing the
attachments. But for old-school uuencoded data in the mail, we have
been directly indexing the encoded data as terms, (which is not useful
at all---nobody will ever ytry to search based on the seemingly random
uuencoded data).
Additionally, indexing a modestly large uuencoded file seems to make
Xapian go insane, (consuming *lots* of memory).
We fix both problems by detecting uuencoded content and not performing
any indexing of it.
Previously we were printing a number of messages upgraded so far. The
original motivation for this was to accurately reflect the fact that
there are two passes, (so each message is processed twice and it's not
accurate to represent with a single count). But as it turns out, the
second pass takes zero time (relatively speaking) so we're still not
accounting for it.
If nothing else, the percentage-based reporting makes for a cleaner
API for the progress_notify function.
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.
All notmuch searches currently sort by value (either date or message
ID) so it's just wasted effort for Xapian to compute relevance values
for each result. We now explicitly tell Xapian that we're uninterested
in the relevance values.
The first phase copies data from the old format to the new format
without deleting anything. This allows an old notmuch to still use the
database if the upgrade process gets interrupted. The second phase
performs the deletion (after updating the database version number). If
the second phase is interrupted, there will be some unused data in the
database, but it shouldn't cause any actual harm.
The recent support for renames in the database is our first time
(since notmuch has had more than a single user) that we have a
database format change. To support smooth upgrades we now encode a
database format version number in the Xapian metadata.
Going forward notmuch will emit a warning if used to read from a
database with a newer version than it natively supports, and will
refuse to write to a database with a newer version.
The library also provides functions to query the database format
version:
notmuch_database_get_version
to ask if notmuch wants a newer version than that:
notmuch_database_needs_upgrade
and a function to actually perform that upgrade:
notmuch_database_upgrade
Previously we had NOTMUCH_DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY but
NOTMUCH_STATUS_READONLY_DATABASE which was ugly and confusing. Rename
the latter to NOTMUCH_STATUS_READ_ONLY_DATABASE for consistency.
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).
The original wording made it sound like this function was just doing
some string manipulation. But this function actually creates new
directory documents as a side effect. So make that explicit in its
documentation.
When a notmuch database is upgraded to the new database format, (to
support file rename and deletion), any message documents corresponding
to deleted files will not currently be upgraded. This means that a
search matching these documents will find no filenames in the expected
place.
Go ahead and return the filename as originally stored, (rather than
aborting with an internal error), in this case.
Similar to the return value of notmuch_database_add_message, we now
enhance the return value of notmuch_database_remove_message to
indicate whether the message document was entirely removed (SUCCESS)
or whether only this filename was removed and the document exists
under other filenamed (DUPLICATE_MESSAGE_ID).
Previously, adding a filename with the same message ID as an existing
message would do nothing. But we recently fixed this to instead add
the new filename to the existing message document. So update the
documentation to match now.
In the presentation we often omit citations and signatures, but this
is not content that should be omitted from the index, (especially
when the citation detection is wrong---see cases where a line
beginning with "From" is corrupted to ">From" by mail processing
tools).
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.
This commit contains my changes to the API proposed by Keith. Nothing
is dramatically different. There are minor things like changing
notmuch_files_t to notmuch_filenames_t and then various things needed
for completeness as noticed while implementing this, (such as
notmuch_directory_destroy and notmuch_directory_set_mtime).
This will allow applications to support the removal of messages, (such
as when a file is deleted from the mail store). No removal support is
provided yet in commands such as "notmuch new".
The existing find_doc_ids function is convenient when the caller
doesn't want to be bothered constructing a term. But when the caller
*does* have the term already, that interface is just wasteful. So we
export a lower-level interface that maps a pre-constructed term to a
document-ID iterators.
The code to map a filename to a direntry is something that we're going
to want in a future _remove_message function, so put it in a new
function _notmuch_database_filename_to_direntry .
The library interface is unchanged so far, (still just
notmuch_database_add_message), but internally, the old
_set_filename function is now _add_filename instead.
Instead of storing the complete message filename in the data portion
of a mail document we now store a 'direntry' term that contains the
document ID of a directory document and also the basename of the
message filename within that directory. This will allow us to easily
store multple filenames for a single message, and will also allow us
to find mail documents for files that previously existed in a
directory but that have since been deleted.
Some pending commits want the _split_path functionality separate from
mapping a directory to a document ID. The split_path function now
returns the basename as well as the directory name.
We're planning to have mail documents refer to directory documents for
the path of the containing directory. To support this, we need the
path in the data, (since the path in the 'directory' term can be
irretrievable as it will be the SHA1 sum of the path for a very long
path).
We'll soon have mail documents referring to their parent directory's
directory documents, so we'll need access to _find_parent_id in files
such as message.cc.
Storing the document ID of the parent of each directory document will
allow us to find all child-directory documents for a given directory
document. We will need this in order to detect directories that have
been removed from the mail store, (though we aren't yet doing this).
The recent change from storing absolute paths to relative paths means
that new directory documents will already be created, (and the old
ones will just linger stale in the database). Given that, we might as
well put a clean name on the term in the new documents, (and no real
flag day is needed).
We were already storing relative mail filenames, so this is consistent
with that. Additionally, it means that directory documents remain
valid even if the database is relocated within its containing
filesystem.
