The "DELETE TAG ALL" command is ignored in this case because the header of a table indicates that there's no structural index for the table so there're no Tags to delete.

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>From what I now see happening, the "DELETE TAG ALL" does not delete
>the CDX when it is run just before the start of the index creation.
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>However, if the CDX is deleted from the disk way above the creation
>of the new CDX, the CDX will be the correct size.
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>The client has been running with large CDXs for years without a known problem.
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>Again thanks...