Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers

[zimoun]

On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 at 16:25, Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:

> Maybe you misunderstood a point: the filesearch database is not a
> database of _all store items_, but only of the items that correspond to
> the packages of a given Guix generation.

Yes, it is clear for me.  I meant: “all the store items of one specific
Guix generation/revision”.  So all the outputs files of ~15k packages.


>> Well, I think it will be more with all the items of all the packages.
>
> No, the 8 MiB include _all the packages_ of a Guix generation.
> We never include the complete store, it would not make sense for filesearch.

[...]

> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>       The database will all package descriptions and synopsis is 46 MiB and
>       compresses down to 11 MiB in zstd.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Sorry, I have overlooked the code.  All is fine. :-)


I will try to adapat the “guix search” to use the database instead.


Cheers,
simon