Re: using lobs system types to manually clear data

Fred Toussi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.hsqldb.user
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It is easier to delete the rows that contain the lobs. The spaces then
become available for new lobs after a checkpoint. Create a a table with
a lob column and insert random data in multiples of 32 GB. This will
fill up the space. Then delete rows from this table and finally perform
a checkpoint to release the space again.

The LOB_IDS table is for the currently existing lobs that have a
reference, not deleted ones.

Fred

On Wed, May 21, 2014, at 18:38, Brian Young wrote:

Hello, in our usage of hsqldb, it is sometimes necessary to permanently
delete blobs such that someone "in the know" couldn't recover said blob
from the .lobs file.

I am considering reading the system tables and zero out the blocks that
are identified as having no active references.  Obviously this would be
done while the database is "offline", meaning the cleanup process is
the owner and single user of the database.

I am assuming LOB_IDS.LOB_LENGTH is in bytes, but how do I determine
the offset a given LOB within the .lobs file?

Are there any gotchas here?

Thanks

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