Re: Compaction failed: A Xapian exception occurred

Subject: Re: Compaction failed: A Xapian exception occurred

Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 23:08:05 +0100

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From: Peter P.


* David Bremner <david@tethera.net> [2025-12-04 15:28]:
> "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.

Thanks! I did recreated the DB and so far no errors anymore, great!
best, P
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