There is no need to add a ghost message upon deletion if there are no
other active messages in the thread.

Also, if the message being deleted was a ghost already, we can just go
ahead and delete it.
---
 lib/message.cc | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/message.cc b/lib/message.cc
index 2399ab3..1b423b0 100644
--- a/lib/message.cc
+++ b/lib/message.cc
@@ -1044,11 +1044,14 @@ _notmuch_message_delete (notmuch_message_t *message)
 {
     notmuch_status_t status;
     Xapian::WritableDatabase *db;
-    const char *mid, *tid;
+    const char *mid, *tid, *query_string;
     notmuch_message_t *ghost;
     notmuch_private_status_t private_status;
     notmuch_database_t *notmuch;
-           
+    notmuch_query_t *query;
+    unsigned int count = 0;
+    notmuch_bool_t is_ghost;
+
     mid = notmuch_message_get_message_id (message);
     tid = notmuch_message_get_thread_id (message);
     notmuch = message->notmuch;
@@ -1059,22 +1062,45 @@ _notmuch_message_delete (notmuch_message_t *message)
 
     db = static_cast <Xapian::WritableDatabase *> (notmuch->xapian_db);
     db->delete_document (message->doc_id);
-           
-    /* and reintroduce a ghost in its place */
-    ghost = _notmuch_message_create_for_message_id (notmuch, mid, 
&private_status);
-    if (private_status == NOTMUCH_PRIVATE_STATUS_NO_DOCUMENT_FOUND) {
-       private_status = _notmuch_message_initialize_ghost (ghost, tid);
-       if (! private_status)
-           _notmuch_message_sync (ghost);
-    } else if (private_status == NOTMUCH_PRIVATE_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
-       /* this is deeply weird, and we should not have gotten into
-          this state.  is there a better error message to return
-          here? */
-       return NOTMUCH_STATUS_DUPLICATE_MESSAGE_ID;
+
+    /* if this was a ghost to begin with, we are done */
+    private_status = _notmuch_message_has_term (message, "type", "ghost", 
&is_ghost);
+    if (private_status)
+       return COERCE_STATUS (private_status,
+                             "Error trying to determine whether message was a 
ghost");
+    if (is_ghost)
+       return NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+    
+    query_string = talloc_asprintf (message, "thread:%s", tid);
+    query = notmuch_query_create (notmuch, query_string);
+    if (query == NULL)
+       return NOTMUCH_STATUS_OUT_OF_MEMORY;
+    status = notmuch_query_count_messages_st (query, &count);
+    if (status) {
+       notmuch_query_destroy (query);
+       return status;
     }
 
-    notmuch_message_destroy (ghost);
-    return COERCE_STATUS (private_status, "Error converting to ghost message");
+    if (count > 0) {
+       /* reintroduce a ghost in its place because there are still
+        * other active messages in this thread: */
+       ghost = _notmuch_message_create_for_message_id (notmuch, mid, 
&private_status);
+       if (private_status == NOTMUCH_PRIVATE_STATUS_NO_DOCUMENT_FOUND) {
+           private_status = _notmuch_message_initialize_ghost (ghost, tid);
+           if (! private_status)
+               _notmuch_message_sync (ghost);
+       } else if (private_status == NOTMUCH_PRIVATE_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
+           /* this is deeply weird, and we should not have gotten
+              into this state.  is there a better error message to
+              return here? */
+           status = NOTMUCH_STATUS_DUPLICATE_MESSAGE_ID;
+       }
+
+       notmuch_message_destroy (ghost);
+       status = COERCE_STATUS (private_status, "Error converting to ghost 
message");
+    }
+    notmuch_query_destroy (query);
+    return status;
 }
 
 /* Transform a blank message into a ghost message.  The caller must
-- 
2.8.0.rc3

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