RE: Database doesn't shrink when data are deleted

Gregoire Dubois <[email protected]> Thu, 31 Mar 2005 02:00:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mckoi
Message-ID <1112227215.3416.10.camel@Greg>
Thank you very much for your answer.

I personally would love to see this fixed too.

Le mercredi 30 mars 2005 à 14:58 -0600, Jelai Wang a écrit :
> I can confirm this behavior.  I use the BLOB data type to store ~ 8 GB of
> data in one of my applications, I've since trimmed it down, but it still
> takes the same space even after COMPACT TABLE.
> 
> IIRC from the mailing list archives, this issue has already been discussed
> in another thread (although I can't find it at a glance), and if I'm not
> mistaken is a known issue that Toby is working on.  I personally would love
> to see this fixed.
> 
> This behavior was observed in both mckoi 1.0.3 and 1.0.2 on Linux + JDK
> 1.4.2.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Jelai
> 
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> 
> I thought so, as that is what is written in the documentation. But I can't
> make it work... 
> 
> Would anybody have tried "COMPACT TABLE" with BLOB or any other type? Am I
> the only one to have this problem?
> 
> I'm using Mckoi under Linux Fedora Core 3... If it can be of any help.
> 
> Thank you very much. 
> 
> Le mercredi 30 mars 2005 à 09:14 -0800, James a écrit :
> > Doesn't 'COMPACT TABLE' clean up disk space used?
> >    http://mckoi.com/database/SQLSyntax.html#9
> > 
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