Re: Compaction failed: A Xapian exception occurred

Subject: Re: Compaction failed: A Xapian exception occurred

Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:28:53 -0400

To: Peter P., notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


"Peter P." <peterparker@fastmail.com> writes:

> * Peter P. <peterparker@fastmail.com> [2025-12-01 22:15]:
> [...]
>> Thanks David! Yes, indeed this finds an error. Does the below printout indicate the problem's source? Is there a fix?
> [...]
>> position:
>> blocksize=8K items=23056297 firstunused=144292 revision=409 levels=2 root=53867
>> B-tree checked okay
>> Extra junk in key with docid 65734
>> position table errors found: 1
> ...or can I simply delete the xapian folder that contains the database
> and have it re-created yet one more time to see if the error disapperas then?
>
> Thanks!
> P

You can certainly try that, if you don't have state (e.g. tags) which
will be lost.

d

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