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22 From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
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23 To: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>,
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25 Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC?] Compactification support
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27 References: <1345476704-17091-1-git-send-email-bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
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52 On Tue, Aug 21 2012, Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> wrote:
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54 > Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:
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56 >> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> wrote:
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57 >>> Here is a small patchset adding support for database compaction when
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58 >>> supported by Xapian. Here I add a function which both compacts and
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59 >>> closes the database.
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61 >> What are the benefits of this compared to xapian-compact [1]?
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63 > I think it's a bit of a shame you are currently forced to interact with
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64 > Xapian directly (an implementation detail) to compact the database. This
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65 > set seeks to abstract this out. This is especially important since it's
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66 > not too difficult to get the invocation of xapian-compact wrong
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67 > (e.g. forget --no-renumber).
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69 Better reason would be that xapian-compact(1) may not be available although
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70 the library is -- if the command is available it is easy to execve(2) it
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71 with correct arguments... (?)
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75 > Also, in the past Carl (id:"87ocl1lut1.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org") has
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76 > mentioned it would be nice if compact would be run after the initial run
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77 > of "notmuch new". This patchset sets the groundwork to enable this.
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