Bayes expiry vs. sync, again

[Ian Zimmerman <it...@buug.org>]

I am sorry to return to this horse which has perhaps been beaten
enough.  But I still don't know and don't understand (_after_ reading
the docs) if I can, at the same time:

1. completely disable expiry

2. force a sync of the journal

I just saw with my own eyes that passing --sync to sa-learn does _not_
necessarily force one.  (The manpage is ambiguous about it.)  But I
don't want to pass --force-expire because of 1.

I am asking in the context of using the default db backend for Bayes,
but if there is a way to do this with one of the other options, I'll
consider it.

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Re: Bayes expiry vs. sync, again

[RW <rw...@googlemail.com>]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:00:22 -0700
Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> I am sorry to return to this horse which has perhaps been beaten
> enough.  But I still don't know and don't understand (_after_ reading
> the docs) if I can, at the same time:
> 
> 1. completely disable expiry

You can only disable automatic expiry, although you could just set the
token limit ridiculously high. 

> 2. force a sync of the journal
> 
> I just saw with my own eyes that passing --sync to sa-learn does _not_
> necessarily force one. 

What exactly did you see happen? If you can reproduce it, try running
with the -D option.


>  But I don't want to pass --force-expire because of 1.

If you mean you you were contemplating running  --force-expire purely
to get a sync as a side-effect, I don't think that would make any
difference. --force-expire simply implies --sync in the options
handling.