From: Austin Clements Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 02:59:13 +0000 (-0400) Subject: lib: Fix slight misinformation in the database schema doc X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1d652c87193b34fe1057d7b02db0a4aad95b0fad;p=notmuch.git lib: Fix slight misinformation in the database schema doc The database schema documentation made it sound like each mail document had exactly one on-disk message file, which hasn't been true for a long time. --- diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc index 45c42607..c7602906 100644 --- a/lib/database.cc +++ b/lib/database.cc @@ -54,9 +54,12 @@ typedef struct { * * Mail document * ------------- - * A mail document is associated with a particular email message file - * on disk. It is indexed with the following prefixed terms which the - * database uses to construct threads, etc.: + * A mail document is associated with a particular email message. It + * is stored in one or more files on disk (though only one has its + * content indexed) and is uniquely identified by its "id" field + * (which is generally the message ID). It is indexed with the + * following prefixed terms which the database uses to construct + * threads, etc.: * * Single terms of given prefix: *