Excellent, David!!!!!!!
It is your similar in-depth analysis of key insertion-caused .CDX bloat that is the ENTIRE subject of the bug reported in the other thread, so I look forward to that.
Jim
>I'm posting these test results in a new thread to provide a clear place to present them.
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>These are the results for every version of VFP that I have readily available, the code is listed below. Since I can't use an HTML table in a message I'm posting a link to a Wiki topic that I composed tonight:
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~CDXBloat~VFP>
>The bottom line.
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>1) VFP5.0a, VFP6SP3, VFP7 and VFP7SP1 all deal with CDX bloat caused by tag deletion in the exact same manner.
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>2) VFP7SP1 does significantly increase the size of a CDX.
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>3) REINDEX can and does remove CDX bloat.
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>I will post a similar in depth analysis of key insertion caused CDX bloat in the near future.