Re: [PATCH] TODO: date range queries - check
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41 From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
42 To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,\r
43         David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
44 Subject: Re: [PATCH] TODO: date range queries - check\r
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76 On Sat, 08 Dec 2012, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:\r
77 > On Sat, Dec 08 2012, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:\r
78 >> Patch? Concrete wording suggestion?\r
79 >\r
80 > How about:\r
81 >\r
82 > It would be nice to not require both endpoints to be specified in date\r
83 > searches.  For example it would be nice to be able to say things like\r
84 > "date:2009-01-1", to specify a search over a particular day, or\r
85 > "since:'1 month' to specify an open-ended range, and have the other\r
86 > endpoint be implicit.  To do any of this we're probably going to need to\r
87 > break down an write our own parser for the query string rather than\r
88 > using Xapian's QueryParser class.\r
89 \r
90 FWIW, this means, in practice:\r
91 \r
92 Make date:<expr> an alias for date:<expr>..<expr>\r
93 \r
94 Make since:<expr> an alias for date:<expr>..\r
95 \r
96 Make until:<expr> an alias for date:..<expr>\r
97 \r
98 We'll either need to write our own query parser or some new features to\r
99 upstream Xapian to do any of these.\r
100 \r
101 \r
102 BR,\r
103 Jani.\r