storing From and Subject in xapian

[Stewart Smith]

On Sun, 08 May 2011 22:24:37 -0700, Istvan Marko <notmuch at kismala.com> wrote:
> Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> writes:
> 
> > Unless I hear a strong positive response I'll hold off on considering it
> > for 0.6, and suggest instead targeting it for 0.7.
> 
> I would say wait until 0.7 at least.
> 
> An important thing missing is fallback to the old method for messages
> where the Subject/From VALUE fields don't exist. Otherwise people will
> get blank results until they rebuild their database.

Would it be possible to progressively fill the DB with the new data?

i.e.

if Subject/From not in db for message
   add Subject/From for this message to DB.

?

That'd be awesome from my pov (having just rebuilt my database in chert
format.... and that took FOREVER).

-- 
Stewart Smith