Comment 7 for bug 539275

lucid users can safely use this ppa https://launchpad.net/~*gwibber*-*team*
/+archive/*ppa which fixes this bug including a ton of other bugs too.*

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Tom Goh <email address hidden> wrote:

> hmm, what is the fixed version for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
>
> I guess I am going to do an apt-get purge gwibber because nothing ever
> gets fixed and gets pushed around.
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> Title:
> gwibber_messages couchdb views use more disk space than needed
>
> Status in Gwibber:
> Invalid
> Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in “gwibber” source package in Lucid:
> Triaged
> Status in “gwibber” package in Debian:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> A lot of the views in the gwibber_messages couchdb database emit doc as
> the value. This is unnecessary, as any view can me made to return the
> document in its rows by calling it with the parameter include_docs=true, and
> I believe it wastes a lot of disk space, as the views are stored in their
> entirety. On my machine, with somewhere around 50K messages in gwibber, the
> database (after compaction) takes 78MB, whereas the views for it take over
> 1GB.
>
> I have started work on a branch that fixes this, which should be pretty
> small, but it's a little more work than I expected, absent any kind of
> tests. I'll try to add tests for the changes I make at least.
>
> (Another space saver is to use much shorter document ids. It looks like
> gwibber generates its own ids, so I'd suggest encoding the uuids to base64
> to use less bytes or something. Obviously I'm polluting my own bug here, I
> just wanted to make note of it somewhere in case I forget to follow up on
> it.)
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