Re: [Tracker] [PATCH] "Daemonize" metadata extractor

[Carlos Garnacho <carlos imendio com>]

Hi!,

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 10:36 -0500, Jamie McCracken wrote:
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> bear in mind tracker is a differential indexer so when indexing a new
> file we need all the metadata before saving it - we must not index
> partially and then complete later on as thats inefficient with our
> design and would prolong the sqlite transactions which would prevent
> searches from running
>
> It would make things a lot more complex unless I have misunderstood your
> plans?

The extractor pool code could be modified to attach data to a path, so
tracker could attach there all the other data, and insert everything
altogether in the DB when the metadata has been extracted.

Dealing with beginning/ending transactions would be a bit more complex I
guess, I'd have to investigate further about that.

Regards,
   Carlos