bug#33005: 27.0.50; Data loss with Gnus registry

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On 12/04/19 17:10 PM, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Would you try the attached patch? It leaves gnus-registry-db at nil to
>> start with, and also removes the root of the double-loading (which was a
>> problem only because it can potentially be very slow).
>
> Seems to work so far, tested for a while (also once quickly with
> debbugs-gnu ;-)

Oh good :)

> So you now (re-)load the db repeatedly and unconditionally?

No: unconditionally but only once. I fixed it (I hope) closer to the
root of the problem: calling `gnus-registry-initialize' used to load
once unconditionally, then add the load function to
`gnus-read-newsrc-hook', which would load a second time at startup. Now
`gnus-registry-initialize' checks whether Gnus has already been started
and does one or the other, not both.

I'll test a bit more and then push, this should go into 27.1.

Thanks