[Xapian-devel] Cleaning the index

Matt Chaput matt at whoosh.ca
Sat Mar 1 19:31:05 GMT 2014


Just curious: How does Xapian clean up postings/words from deleted documents? Does it just remove them whenever a posting node is COWed in the Btree? Or is there some kind of periodic reaper function?

Thanks!

Matt




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