because this is simply the way InnoDB is implemented

as multiple said the default of a single table space
is idiotic in my opinion, but however this is well
known over years

google: "mysql innodb reduce datafiles"

Am 22.05.2012 11:50, schrieb Kishore Vaishnav:
> Does this means that if we have a single tablespace with file per table and 
> doing the optimization will reduce the
> size of the datafile size ? If yes, then why this not possible on the 
> datafile (one single file) too ?

> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net 
> <mailto:h.rei...@thelounge.net>> wrote:
> 
>     as multiple answered, yes it matters!
> 
>     there is no way to reduce the size of a single tablespace
>     with file per table you can shrink the files with
>     "optimize table <tblname>" which is in fact a "ALTER TABLE"
>     without real changes
> 
>     Am 22.05.2012 11:28, schrieb Kishore Vaishnav:
>     > Right now one tablespace datafile. But does it matters if i have one 
> file
>     > per table.
>     >
>     > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ananda Kumar <anan...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:anan...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> do u have one file per table or just one system tablespace datafile.
>     >>
>     >> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Kishore Vaishnav <
>     >> kish...@railsfactory.org <mailto:kish...@railsfactory.org>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> Thanks for the reply, but in my case the datafile is growing 1 GB per 
> day
>     >>> with only 1 DB (apart from mysql / information_schema / test) and the 
> size
>     >>> of the DB is just 600MB, where records get updated / deleted / added 
> and
>     >>> on
>     >>> an average it maintains 600MB only. Now the datafile is increased to 
> 30GB
>     >>> from the past 30 days, do you have any idea how to reduce this ?
>     >>>
>     >>> Also just wondering what does the datafile contains actually and why 
> can't
>     >>> it gets decreased ?
>     >>>
>     >>> *thanks & regards,
>     >>> __________________*
>     >>> Kishore Kumar Vaishnav
>     >>> *
>     >>> *
>     >>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Claudio Nanni 
> <claudio.na...@gmail.com <mailto:claudio.na...@gmail.com>
>     >>>> wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>>> Kishore,
>     >>>> No, as already explained, it is not possible, Innodb datafiles 
> *never*
>     >>>> shrink.
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Cheers
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Claudio
>     >>>> On May 22, 2012 10:05 AM, "Kishore Vaishnav" 
> <kish...@railsfactory.org <mailto:kish...@railsfactory.org>>
>     >>>> wrote:
>     >>>>
>     >>>>> Hi,
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> I understand that if I set the  innodb_file_per_table then once the
>     >>> table
>     >>>>> is drop the datafile will also be lost. But is there a way where I
>     >>>>> truncate
>     >>>>> the table and the datafile shrinks itself ?
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> *thanks & regards,
>     >>>>> __________________*
>     >>>>> Kishore Kumar Vaishnav
>     >>>>> *
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> *
>     >>>>> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Johan De Meersman 
> <vegiv...@tuxera.be <mailto:vegiv...@tuxera.be>
>     >>>>>> wrote:
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>     >>>>>>> From: "Manivannan S." <manivanna...@spanservices.com 
> <mailto:manivanna...@spanservices.com>>
>     >>>>>>>
>     >>>>>>> How to reduce the ibdata1 file size in both LINUX and WINDOWS
>     >>>>>>> machine.
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> This is by design - you cannot reduce it, nor can you remove added
>     >>>>>> datafiles.
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> If you want to shrink the ibdata files, you must stop all
>     >>> connections to
>     >>>>>> the server, take a full backup, stop the server, remove the 
> datafiles
>     >>>>> (and
>     >>>>>> maybe change the config), restart the server (will take time to
>     >>> recreate
>     >>>>>> emtpy datafiles) and then import the backup.
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> For new tables, you can turn on the option innodb_file_per_table -
>     >>> then
>     >>>>>> every (new) table gets it's own datafile; and when you drop the
>     >>> table,
>     >>>>> that
>     >>>>>> datafile also gets deleted.
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>>
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>     >>>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >
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