>>VFP 6 - REINDEX could usually be expected to reduce the size of a CDX, depending upon how many UPDATES and INSERTS had occured since the previous REINDEX.
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>>VFP 7 - it looks like REINDEX pre-allocates space to reduce the onset of bloat. In some case a VFP 6 CDX REINDEXED in VFP7 more than doubled in size. IMHO this represents a potential big performance hit, for anyone with very large CDX's that might previously have been cached. Has anyone done any tests to see if / how many UPDATES / INSERTS are required to cause the CDX to increase in size.
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>>VFP 8 - Is this feature still present?
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>It's fixed in VFP8 beta.

Thanks Sergey - I consider this a good thing!

Do you know this is the case: after running a quick test, or is it documented in a list of changes somewhere? Using the term fixed kind of implies that it was considered a bug (that we could live with) - which vindicates Jim Nelson.