Info about notmuch database

[Thomas Jost]

On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:49:19 +0000, boyska <piuttosto at logorroici.org> wrote:
> Hello!
> I like notmuch a lot, so I'm writing a (conceptually) similar software
> about addressbook: it will scan all your emails, storing email 
> addresses
> in a xapian database (you can think of it as little brother database[1] 
> on
> steroids)
> The part that I'd like to re-implement is "notmuch new": it seems that
> in the xapian db there is not only informations about each mail, but
> also the mtime of each directory. My impression is this being 
> "chaotic",
> but probably I am just missing the point.
> 
> So, here's the question: how is the db "structured"? is there any
> documentation to look at?
> 
> [1] http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/
> 
> -- 
> boyska
> GPG: 0x520CE393

There's a description of the DB "schema" in lib/database.cc in the
notmuch source code. But you may also consider just using libnotmuch
instead, if that's enough for what you want to do.

Also: why Xapian? I'm already using something similar I wrote with
Python, storing everything in a dictionary, using Pickle to save that to
disk: 162 lines of code and 45 kb of data are enough to store my
addressbook and have completion in Emacs...

Regards,

-- 
Thomas/Schnouki
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