At 14:06 2016-11-03, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

On 2016-11-03 14:24, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

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 I have a routine that packs and reindexes all of the tables. I

have not needed anything more involved. I do see some memo bloat. I have a table that stores configuration data. When packed, the .fpt is 1280 bytes. I see from the latest sent to me that it is up to 5,205,248 bytes. That is bigger than the source code.

Would the PACK do a reindex automatically? According to VFP Help (also here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/t2704cs4(v=vs.80).a... ): "If the current table has one or more indexes open, PACK rebuilds the index files."

So your reindex, Gene, must be the EXPLICIT kind of reindex akin to Stonefield Database Toolkit or your own explicit INDEX Field TAG MyOrder commands. Otherwise, if you're just doing REINDEX, sounds to me like you're doing it twice. In fact, if you're running your own reindex, you may as well do a DELETE TAG ALL beforehand to avoid the double-work. ????

I do not use reindex.

I decided to check. I found that I do the table pack before I call the table's indexing routine. The indexing routines all had delete tag all, but that is too late. I have added one to just before the pack.

I had not caught this since my indexing runs fairly quickly.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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