On Friday, 2017-12-29 at 10:40:02 UTC, David Edmondson wrote: >>> Any suggestions? Is it possible to force a new chert database to be >>> created rather than glass? (Mostly I'd like to get back to work!) >> >> According to Olly Betts, >> >> With 1.4 you can pass Xapian::DB_BACKEND_CHERT in the flags when >> constructing the WritableDatabase object. >> >> So you'd have to hack the notmuch source, I'm guessing around line 55 of >> database.cc >> >> #define DB_ACTION (Xapian::DB_CREATE_OR_OPEN | Xapian::DB_RETRY_LOCK | >> Xapian::DB_BACKEND_CHERT)
This worked and the initial scan ran through to completion (making faster progress than the glass based version). dme. -- You can't hide from the flipside. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch