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From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
To: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC?] Compactification support
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On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is a small patchset adding support for database compaction when
> supported by Xapian. Here I add a function which both compacts and
> closes the database.

What are the benefits of this compared to xapian-compact [1]?

Jani.

[1] http://xapian.org/docs/admin_notes.html#compacting-a-database