Peter


>.... in my case I'm only interested in the performance (=speed) and 'correctness' issues of (re)indexing.

IMO VFP indexed searches are so fast, even on very large tables, that I doubt that the bloat issue would be a noticable factor. I think other factors such as CPU speed, CPU load, memory speed / availablity, cached data, etc, would be more of a factor iro search speeds than whether the CDX file is bloated somewhat or not. One must weigh up idealistic and theoretical considerations with real world deployment issues and working environments.

My 2c (ZAR) worth :)

Jos