Compacting the database: xapian-compact vs notmuch-compact

Compacting the database: xapian-compact vs notmuch-compact

[Antoine Amarilli]

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Hi all,

I'm confused by this page of the notmuch website
<https://notmuchmail.org/performance/>, specifically the section
"Compact your database", which talks about compacting the notmuch
database using "xapian-compact". I don't understand how this relates to
the command "notmuch compact"
<https://notmuchmail.org/doc/latest/man1/notmuch-compact.html>.

Is it that <https://notmuchmail.org/performance/> wasn't updated to
reflect the existence of "notmuch compact", or is there some subtle
reason to want to keep the "xapian-compact"-based process?

Thanks,

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Antoine Amarilli


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Re: Compacting the database: xapian-compact vs notmuch-compact

[David Bremner]

Antoine Amarilli <a3nm@a3nm.net> writes:

> Is it that <https://notmuchmail.org/performance/> wasn't updated to
> reflect the existence of "notmuch compact", or is there some subtle
> reason to want to keep the "xapian-compact"-based process?
>

As you guessed the docs (a wiki!) need to be updated. There should be no
reason to prefer xapian-compact over notmuch-compact.

Apologies for the very long delay in answering.

d