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Re: DELETE Operations in MariaDB 5.5.30 do not reduce size of table files

 

optimize table xxxxx
will "clean" the "deleted records"


2013/10/9 Steve Afrin <safrin@xxxxxxxxx>

> To anyone who knows how the MyISAM engine works (or maybe this is
> independent of the DB engine), here’s my scenario:
>
>
>    - I have a table with 180,000 rows
>    - I delete 170,000 rows with a DELETE and subsequent COMMIT statement
>    - The MYI table file is still the same size it was before the 170k
>    rows were deleted
>
>
> I saw there’s an administrative PURGE command, but it looks like that is
> just for purging data from binary logs, if you’ve even turned on the option
> for keeping binary logs.
>
> In MariaDB 5.5.30 or later, how do I run a purge operation to compress the
> deleted rows of data out of my physical table files and cause the
> reindexing to happen for the data that is still in my tables?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
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