On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:23:35 +0000 (UTC), Olly Betts <olly@survex.com> wrote:
> Bear in mind Xapian 1.1.x were development versions, and it sounds like you
> are using a revision somewhere between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4.
> 
> If you can reproduce this with 1.2.x (or 1.0.x), I'm happy to investigate.
> I'm not sure it's worthwhile to try to isolate a bug in an old development
> version - a lot has changed in the last 6+ months.

Oops, of course it failed. This xapian-compact-1.1 is the same one I
built 7 month ago!

Upgrade to Xapian 1.2.2 from debian experimental and test again, now my
.notmuch is almost half sized and it still works!

Cheers,
Kanru