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authorEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2021-02-08 08:33:39 -1000
committerEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2021-02-09 07:51:03 +0000
commitc1a2b1f49ef4fd6e1f0033cbe3e3bcd8f65aca37 (patch)
tree103457860523a8dc1cf884fefd0d5f5ec8b283f6 /lib
parent29e530f1c0694107ad25881a2c693c30783f85f1 (diff)
downloadpublic-inbox-c1a2b1f49ef4fd6e1f0033cbe3e3bcd8f65aca37.tar.gz
Order doesn't matter when users are completely downloading
mboxrds onto the FS and then opening them with an MUA.  The
MUA is expected to sort the results in the user's preferred
order.

However, lei can start streaming the results to its destination
Maildir (or eventually IMAP/JMAP mailbox) with an MUA already
open.  This will let users see recent results sooner in their
MUA, as those tend to have a higher docid.  This matches the
behavior of the HTML results, as well.

As a bonus, this is around ~5% faster in a one-off, informal
test case with 66k results.  I expect this to hold true in all
all cases since git has always optimized storage to favor recent
objects.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/Mbox.pm2
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm13
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Mbox.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Mbox.pm
index 1fca356b..94f733bc 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Mbox.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Mbox.pm
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ sub mbox_all {
         my $over = $ctx->{ibx}->over or
                 return PublicInbox::WWW::need($ctx, 'Overview');
 
-        my $qopts = $ctx->{qopts} = { relevance => -1 }; # ORDER BY docid ASC
+        my $qopts = $ctx->{qopts} = { relevance => -2 }; # ORDER BY docid DESC
         $qopts->{threads} = 1 if $q->{t};
         my $mset = $srch->mset($q_string, $qopts);
         $qopts->{offset} = $mset->size or
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm
index aa737d63..76a270bc 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Search.pm
@@ -407,18 +407,17 @@ sub _enquire_once { # retry_reopen callback
         my $enquire = $X{Enquire}->new($xdb);
         $enquire->set_query($query);
         $opts ||= {};
-        my $desc = !$opts->{asc};
         my $rel = $opts->{relevance} // 0;
-        if ($rel == -1) { # ORDER BY docid/UID
+        if ($rel == -2) { # ORDER BY docid/UID (highest first)
+                $enquire->set_weighting_scheme($X{BoolWeight}->new);
+                $enquire->set_docid_order($ENQ_DESCENDING);
+        } elsif ($rel == -1) { # ORDER BY docid/UID (lowest first)
                 $enquire->set_weighting_scheme($X{BoolWeight}->new);
                 $enquire->set_docid_order($ENQ_ASCENDING);
         } elsif ($rel == 0) {
-                $enquire->set_sort_by_value_then_relevance(TS, $desc);
-        } elsif ($rel == -2) {
-                $enquire->set_weighting_scheme($X{BoolWeight}->new);
-                $enquire->set_docid_order($ENQ_DESCENDING);
+                $enquire->set_sort_by_value_then_relevance(TS, !$opts->{asc});
         } else { # rel > 0
-                $enquire->set_sort_by_relevance_then_value(TS, $desc);
+                $enquire->set_sort_by_relevance_then_value(TS, !$opts->{asc});
         }
 
         # `mairix -t / --threads' or JMAP collapseThreads