>Hi all,
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>I post this mainly because it appears that many people believe that use of the REINDEX command causes CDX "bloat".
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>I know that I have always believed so until Evan D. noticed that SP3 seemd to have a much faster REINDEX and such was confirmed by MS. At that time I wondered if that might have affected the known bloat effect, reasoning that doing all indexes in 1 pass means that all of the TAGS would be in storage at the same time and so the process might then be able to overwrite the CDX from its beginning.
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>I finally tried this out yesterday and, sure enough, there was absolutely NO CDX BLOAT even after 5 REINDEX commands (closing the subject table each time in between).
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>Knowing no better I attribute this to SP3.
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>. . .but is that really the source of this observation. . .
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>The only other FoxPro that I have on a machine is a FPD 2.6 (probably 2.6b). I made an adjustment to change 2 of the indexes from type I to type N and repeated the test there.
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>To my great surprise there was NO CDX BLOAT there either!!!
>

Hey Jim,

Maybe I have a misunderstanding of how CDX bloat would occur (in the past, of course), but I don't think it happened just because a file was reindexed several times. It seems like it would more likely occur in the following scenario:

lots records added & deleted, not in any predefined pattern
reindex
more records added, different ones deleted, etc...
reindex

Testing that on an old version would take a little more effort.