diference between creating and updating

[muzzol]

hi!

i think this is a simple question:

has the same effect creating a fresh database than updating with -u flag?


i want to put a cron script to update span database and i want to know 
if is better to create it every time with all new identified messages or 
if updating is enough.

thx in advance

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