From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:19:09 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Add TODO about more efficient stable thread queries
X-Git-Tag: 0.17_rc1~50
X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=commitdiff_plain;h=d622cb942aa2db9fbadf3a16e804d36dfe71c8cb;hp=abeac48522ded66e2f0e9aae704482355cb46e6a

Add TODO about more efficient stable thread queries
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diff --git a/devel/TODO b/devel/TODO
index 844555ed..f2124834 100644
--- a/devel/TODO
+++ b/devel/TODO
@@ -114,6 +114,12 @@ are multiple ideas that might make sense. Some consensus needs to be
 reached on this issue, and then both reply formats should be updated
 to be consistent.
 
+Return docid-based queries in thread search results, instead of
+message-id-based queries.  These are much more compact and much faster
+to later query.  This will require support from the library, both for
+retrieving docids (probably as an opaque "get a query that identifies
+this message") and for docid queries.
+
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