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+ Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:12:28 -0700 (PDT)\r
+From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,\r
+ David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, Notmuch list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>\r
+Subject: Re: WARNING: database upgrade coming\r
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+Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 21:12:26 +0200\r
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+Hi Jamie -\r
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+On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:\r
+> Hey, David et. al. I recently did an upgrade to notmuch/master after\r
+> being out of the loop for a while and not noticing that a database\r
+> upgrade was pending. The next notmuch new informed me that a database\r
+> upgrade was required, but it went ahead and did the upgrade unprompted.\r
+> Things went fine, but it did worry me a bit that I didn't know an\r
+> upgrade was pending and didn't have a chance to do a backup before it\r
+> happened.\r
+\r
+FWIW it should always be safe to interrupt the upgrade; I know we don't\r
+inform the user about this.\r
+\r
+> It would be nice if notmuch new would prompt users when an database\r
+> upgrade is pending, to give the user an option to abort before\r
+> proceeding so that they can do a backup if they'd like.\r
+\r
+Please see id:87lhy4f6pr.fsf@nikula.org for a summary on some of the\r
+pros and cons that have been discussed about prompting the user.\r
+\r
+\r
+BR,\r
+Jani.\r