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@@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ Rotational storage devices are NOT recommended for indexing of
 large mail archives; but are fine for backup and usable for
 small instances.
 
+Our use of the L</OVERVIEW DB> requires Xapian document IDs to
+remain stable.  Thus, use of L<xapian-compact(1)> and
+L<copydatabase(8)> require the use of C<--no-renumber> switch.
+
 =head2 OVERVIEW DB
 
 Towards the end of v2 development, it became apparent Xapian did