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.

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
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--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -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.