Re: [PATCH RFC?] Compactification support

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