From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:40:38 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: TODO: Add idea for fixing "notmuch count" to always be exact.
X-Git-Tag: 0.4~149
X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f7ac6d5c8d1db89e698c6d741cd6f5b3ca22556c;p=notmuch

TODO: Add idea for fixing "notmuch count" to always be exact.

I had previously thought Xapian only offered an estimate for the
number of results that might match a search. But Olly let me know
that we can easily ask for Xapian to provide the exact count.
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diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 7cbf632d..f65e59ab 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -247,6 +247,11 @@ into the shared-library interface.
 Audit all libnotmuch entry points to ensure that all Xapian calls are
 wrapped in a try/catch block.
 
+Fix the "count" functionality to be exact as Olly explained in IRC:
+
+	ojwb> cworth: if you set the check_at_least parameter to the
+	database size, get_matches_estimated() will be exact
+
 Search syntax
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 Implement support for "tag:*" to expand to all tags.