Olivier Berger said:

> I think it would be great to provide a script allowing to do some
> maintenance on the xapian DB to improve performance, as explained in
> http://notmuchmail.org/performance/ (Compact your database).

A few months^H^H^H nearly a year ago I had a patch[1] adding a `notmuch
compact` command.  I forgot about it until you mentioned this but I
think I'll try to finish the fix it up and resubmit for merge tonight.

Cheers,

- Ben


[1] http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2012/012213.html