db maintenance "delete oldest least used tokens, but maintain count of x"

[David Relson]

On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:38:38 -0500
Tom Allison wrote:

> Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
> > Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>>I'm not sure what to do about .MSG_COUNT either.  My educated guess
> >is>>"don't worry.  do nothing."
> >>
> >>Won't work in the long run. One half of your tokens have expired,
> >>.MSG_COUNT is way too large.
> > 
> > 
> > That seems to be the problem with all token removal. I wrote
> > something about this in the FAQ (not yet included, David has
> > it for review).
> > 
> 
> So the MSG_COUNT isn't decreased by any maintenance functions (-a -c
> -n)?

Correct.

> I assumed it was rebuilt if you reloaded the database from text.  But
> I guess this isn't case on further inspection.

Correct.

> I assume then for proper care and feeding of bogofilter, there really 
> isn't much reason (rather, requirement) to use any of the maintenance 
> utilities unless you have performance needs.

Correct.

> Am I close?

Very :-)