From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 12:50:18 +0000 (+2000)
Subject: Re: how do the different frontends deal with displaying large queries?
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Re: how do the different frontends deal with displaying large queries?
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+To: Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: how do the different frontends deal with displaying large
+ queries?
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+Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com> writes:
+
+>
+> While loading the threads, if I make enough modifications to the
+> database while the query is still loading (specifically 1: removing the
+> unread tag from a thread, and 2: adding the unread tag to the same thread)
+> apparently the query is invalidated in some way, and I get a hard crash
+> in `notmuch_tags_get ()`.
+>
+> The thread in question has alreaday been loaded and is displayed.
+>
+> Do you deal with this issue in some way?
+>
+
+I think we "deal with" it by not leaving the database open very
+long. The query is dumped as s-expr by a seperate process. Or perhaps we
+just aren't doing the same level of concurrent operations, I don't know.
+
+d