Andy Wills <home@willslab.co.uk> writes: > > andy@andy-x200:~/work/talks/2017/icps$ notmuch new > Processed 230 total files in 7s (29 files/sec.). > Added 212 new messages to the database. Removed 85 messages. Detected 18 file renames. > Error: A Xapian exception occurred flushing database: Value in posting list too large. > > ...and it seems that, since I've been getting this error, new emails > are not reliably being found by, for example M-x notmuch in emacs. > Hi Andy; What version of notmuch is that? From the error message it sounds pre-2014. That particular code was rewritten in notmuch 0.19, so if my guess is correct it might be fixed by newer notmuch. d