On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 12:42 +0200, David Bremner wrote:
> For me compaction is a rare event, so having to take the fallback path
> and do a full dump or whatever doesn't seem so bad. If you don't want to
> have a fallback path, then I guess you need to guarantee externally that
> no "bad changes" happen and either ignore the uuid's or copy them
> forward in your external tool.
>
> Mainly though I think this will be fixed in Xapian. As it happens Xapian
> developer Olly Betts is here at DebConf, and I discussed this problem
> with him. According to Olly, in-progress / future versions of compact
> will function in place, and guarantee the UUID is preserved. I'm not
> sure of the timeline here, but given our scarce developer resources, I
> think I'd rather wait for Olly to fix this.

Okay, I'm convinced now. The series looks good to me otherwise.

Best regards,
Daniel