Hi Jim,

I think from time to time you are a little bit hard on people, but I must say that this time I am 100% with you.

(Sorry, David)

>David,
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>>Jim,
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>>You reported a bug that reindex no longer removed CDX bloat. I proved your bug report to be incorrect, reindex always has removed CDX bloat.
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>You did nothing of the sort! Your promised second report (quoting "Since the code below does not do any record insertions this analysis does not cover the secondary type of bloat. That will be covered by another set of test code posted in the near future." never did materialize and since my whole issue was with exactly the insertion kind of bloat I'd like to know how you can say what you just said!!!!!
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>>The VFP7SP1 did have an acknoledged bug that caused the CDX to double in size, but it was because of a change in the split points of the B+Tree nodes. The bug was fixed in VFP8. For the benefit of others the Wiki article discussing this is at http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~CDXBloat~VFP.
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>My my my, how a story changes over time!!! You were quite pleased with the rationalization for the doubling of the CDX size put forward by ChristofL at the time and happily accepted that it was all by design and to fix a/some bugs. It was all hypothesis and guessing and turned out top be a full crock of crap yet you persist with this double-speak!
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>>It's sad that you feel you and Fabio are being persecuted, there is no consipiracy against either of you. There is a desire to get to the truth, if that ends up in refuting your arguments then that's what happens.
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>No, I feel that the incident effectively stopped further 'persecution' of myself.
>I see it now moved to FabioL, with the same gang handling it EXACTLY the same way it was DONE TO ME. That FabioL speaks a totally different language and clearly is not facile with English and is usually doing a direct translation of his language into English (and we all should know that that only works 15-20% of the time) makes no difference to any of you - once he's marked, he's marked!
>That FabioL has contributed SEVERAL legitimate bug reports also makes no difference. You intend to shut him up and you will contine until that happens.
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>The operation was exposed with my indicent and it is now following exactly the same script as regards FabioL. But I suspect that his skin is thick enough to resist it too.
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>Summarizing: I feel I survived the persecution and no longer feel any. You (the gang) have moved on to FabioL as I see it.
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>Jim
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>>>Whats ironic is that you pulled EXACTLY THE SAME STUNT with me as regards the VFP7 SP1 "bloated index" issue. I called it a bug and you argued that it was not. You ridiculed my 'relying on an undocumented feature' and had yourself one fine time dialoguing with another well-known attendee here to show just how ridiculous my position was. (I was greatly tempted to do a 'ha ha ha I told you so' when it became clear that I was right but I resisted)