On Tue, Aug 21 2012, Ben Gamari <[email protected]> wrote: > Jani Nikula <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Ben Gamari <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Here is a small patchset adding support for database compaction when >>> supported by Xapian. Here I add a function which both compacts and >>> closes the database. >> >> What are the benefits of this compared to xapian-compact [1]? >> > I think it's a bit of a shame you are currently forced to interact with > Xapian directly (an implementation detail) to compact the database. This > set seeks to abstract this out. This is especially important since it's > not too difficult to get the invocation of xapian-compact wrong > (e.g. forget --no-renumber).
Better reason would be that xapian-compact(1) may not be available although the library is -- if the command is available it is easy to execve(2) it with correct arguments... (?) Tomi > Also, in the past Carl (id:"[email protected]") has > mentioned it would be nice if compact would be run after the initial run > of "notmuch new". This patchset sets the groundwork to enable this. > > Cheers, > > - Ben _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list [email protected] http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch
