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authorGravatar Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2010-06-01 10:40:38 -0700
committerGravatar Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2010-06-01 10:51:42 -0700
commitf7ac6d5c8d1db89e698c6d741cd6f5b3ca22556c (patch)
tree0122a6832bd8c2e7c9a3c5be1afebf55bc3bdce8
parenta0665d9104f577e523a61556ecbe999896788e44 (diff)
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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@@ -247,6 +247,11 @@ into the shared-library interface.
Audit all libnotmuch entry points to ensure that all Xapian calls are
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
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Implement support for "tag:*" to expand to all tags.