Hi Christophe, the AUTOOPTIMIZE option might do what you want [1]: If applied to a database, it will always be optimized after an update operation. However, we are also working on the definition of locking operations [2].
Best, Christian [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options#AUTOOPTIMIZE [2] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/1082 > I've had this problem : I've forgotten a db:optimize(...) after a delete > nodes operation. The following xquery has been 60 times slower than before. > Is there a way to detect an update operation, and a way to know on which > database the update occurs, to run automatically a db:optimize(...) each > time a update xquery is run ? > > Christophe