Yes, an unexpected, many-minute wait can be disturbing. My DVR's
latest firmware ditched an orderly front-panel reboot, and cycling the
power takes /forever/!  If your embedded platform has some kind of
maintenance interface, you might offer the option to rebuild, noting
the time required. I see "Rebuild index functionality" on the Roadmap.

On Dec 19, 8:21 am, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is not a very good solution for us. On our embedded platform
> recreating that index can take 5-6 minutes.
> I don't see how this can be a safety "feature" keeping 24 MB of
> trailing zeroes in the index file for 1 MB of data :)
>
> On Dec 19, 3:17 am, trashgod <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > It may not be so much a bug as a safety feature. I see that deleting
> > the index.db file causes indexes to be rebuilt when the database is
> > next opened. Why not make that part of your recovery process?
>
> > On Dec 18, 11:24 am, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > The index does get much small when recreated.
>
> > > I think this is some kind of a bug in the recovery code.
>
> > > Under the normal operation the index file size in our database is
> > > about 60% of the data size.
> > > However after several power failures it grows to some very
> > > unreasonable size (in some cases it is 25 times the data size).
> > > We are implementing a work-around that would delete the index file if
> > > the size is unreasonable, but I'd much rather have the recovery /
> > > store code fixes.
>
> > > Alex
>
> > > On Dec 17, 10:12 pm, trashgod <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > On Dec 16, 5:12 pm, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > I have a fairly small database one table has 1400 rows and the other
> > > > > table is about 3500 rows. I have 3 primary key indexes and 5 indexes
> > > > > on BIGINT column types.
>
> > > > > The data file size is about 1 MB, however the index size grows to
> > > > > about 25+ MB. I don't have the entire diagnostic information yet, but
> > > > > I think that it has to do with the power failures and the recovery of
> > > > > the index after the failure.
>
> > > > > The problem is that the larger this index file is the longer it takes
> > > > > to recover from the failure next time around. I also looked at the
> > > > > index file with the HEX viewer. It appears that beyond the first
> > > > > 5%-8% of the file the rest is filled with zeroes.
>
> > > > > What is the expected data / index size ratio in H2? Is there anything
> > > > > short of recreating the index to get it compacted? What can be
> > > > > causing most of the index file to have zeroes in it?
>
> > > > Why not drop and recreate the constraints & indexes? See if it gets
> > > > smaller.
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