On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:46:14 +0800, Kan-Ru Chen <kanru@kanru.info> wrote:
> After compacting my database, the size shrunk significantly, but the
> number of messages also changed. Beware that you might lose messages
> after compacting if you are trying this.
> 
> run on xapian-svn r13824

Yikes. That's very discouraging. I'll try to do some more testing to see
if I can replicate that, and if so, look closer into what is happening.

-Carl