notmuch/lib/database-private.h, branch 0.18_rc1

lib: add date range query support

2012-10-31T19:55:32Z

Add a custom value range processor to enable date and time searches of the form date:since..until, where "since" and "until" are expressions understood by the previously added date/time parser, to restrict the results to messages within a particular time range (based on the Date: header). If "since" or "until" describes date/time at an accuracy of days or less, the values are rounded according to the accuracy, towards past for "since" and towards future for "until". For example, date:november..yesterday would match from the beginning of November until the end of yesterday. Expressions such as date:today..today means since the beginning of today until the end of today. Open-ended ranges are supported (since Xapian 1.2.1), i.e. you can specify date:..until or date:since.. to not limit the start or end date, respectively. CAVEATS: Xapian does not support spaces in range expressions. You can replace the spaces with '_', or (in most cases) '-', or (in some cases) leave the spaces out altogether. Entering date:expr without ".." (for example date:yesterday) will not work as you might expect. You can achieve the expected result by duplicating the expr both sides of ".." (for example date:yesterday..yesterday). Open-ended ranges won't work with pre-1.2.1 Xapian, but they don't produce an error either. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula

lib: Add support for nested atomic sections.

2011-09-24T01:50:38Z

notmuch_database_t now keeps a nesting count and we only start a transaction or commit for the outermost atomic section. Introduces a new error, NOTMUCH_STATUS_UNBALANCED_ATOMIC.

Add a generic function to get a list of terms with some prefix.

2011-03-21T06:45:18Z

Replace _notmuch_convert_tags with this and simplify _create_filenames_for_terms_with_prefix. This will also come in handy shortly to get the message file name list.

lib: Rework interface for maildir_flags synchronization

2010-11-11T11:40:19Z

Instead of having an API for setting a library-wide flag for synchronization (notmuch_database_set_maildir_sync) we instead implement maildir synchronization with two new library functions: notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags and notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags These functions are nicely documented here, (though the implementation does not quite match the documentation yet---as plainly evidenced by the current results of the test suite).

Make maildir synchronization configurable

2010-11-10T21:09:32Z

This adds group [maildir] and key 'synchronize_flags' to the configuration file. Its value enables (true) or diables (false) the synchronization between notmuch tags and maildir flags. By default, the synchronization is disabled.

lib: Add GCC visibility(hidden) pragmas to private header files.

2010-11-02T05:35:48Z

This prevents any of the private functions from being leaked out through the library interface (at least when compiling with a recent-enough gcc to support the visibility pragma).

Avoid database corruption by not adding partially-constructed mail documents.

2010-06-04T17:16:53Z

Previously we were using Xapian's add_document to allocate document ID values for notmuch_message_t objects. This had the drawback of adding a partially constructed mail document to the database. If notmuch was subsequently interrupted before fully populating this document, then later runs would be quite confused when seeing the partial documents. There are reports from the wild of people hitting internal errors of the form "Message ... has no thread ID" for example, (which is currently an unrecoverable error). We fix this by manually allocating document IDs without adding documents. With this change, we never call Xapian's add_document method, but only replace_document with either the current document ID of a message or a new one that we have allocated.

Fix printf for when uint64_t != unsigned long long int

2010-02-09T19:14:16Z

Thanks to Michal Sojka for pointing out the correct fix, which I verified in the freely-available WG14/N1124 draft (from the C99 working group) which is available here: http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf

Switch from random to sequential thread identifiers.

2010-02-09T19:14:11Z

The sequential identifiers have the advantage of being guaranteed to be unique (until we overflow a 64-bit unsigned integer), and also take up half as much space in the "notmuch search" output (16 columns rather than 32). This change also has the side effect of fixing a bug where notmuch could block on /dev/random at startup (waiting for some entropy to appear). This bug was hit hard by the test suite, (which could easily exhaust the available entropy on common systems---resulting in large delays of the test suite).

lib: Implement versioning in the database and provide upgrade function.

2010-01-08T02:26:31Z

The recent support for renames in the database is our first time (since notmuch has had more than a single user) that we have a database format change. To support smooth upgrades we now encode a database format version number in the Xapian metadata. Going forward notmuch will emit a warning if used to read from a database with a newer version than it natively supports, and will refuse to write to a database with a newer version. The library also provides functions to query the database format version: notmuch_database_get_version to ask if notmuch wants a newer version than that: notmuch_database_needs_upgrade and a function to actually perform that upgrade: notmuch_database_upgrade