David Bremner writes on juni 10, 2016 13:09:
Gaute Hope <[email protected]> writes:
Cool!
Would it break a lot of things if you just replace the original prefix?
It would change the matching behaviour. I guess there are people that
like the current "sloppy" matching of from: and subject:. In my
not-very-scientific tests, it is a factor of 5 to 10 times slower to do
regexp search, which makes sense because it is effectively post
processing the results from Xapian. At least on my system it seems fast
enough to be usable interactively, but that is a pretty shocking
performance regression. And I know there are people with more mail on
slower systems.
Maybe we could check if the search string contains a regexp and decide
whether to pre-process it on the background of that? I think that would
make the interface more user-friendly. You'd just always use search
whether you decide that you need to put in some regexp or not.
Could it be made to work on the message body?
See Austin's previous reply for the details, but basically no; these
"values" index in terms of whole strings, while the body is indexed by
terms (roughly, words). In principle we could add a value slot for the
body, but I think that would at least double the size of the database
(maybe more).
I would rather have double the db and be able wildcard beginning of
terms. If it is not too much maintaining overhead it might be made
optional?
Regards, Gaute
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