BAUMEISTER Alexandre writes:
> Bonjour,
>
> With 3.22 I used to do some queries like "DELETE FROM TABLE". And
> this was very rapid as Mysql only deletes and re-create the files.
>
> I knew that DELETE was very long with InnoDB because it has to
> clear all the table space used by the table from which you DELETE.
>
> But I'm surprised to see that it's very long with MyISAM too !
>
> When I do a "DELETE FROM TABLE" (without any where) on a big
> table, it takes many minutes. And if I look at the table files,
> while the table is empty, the files are still very big.
>
> The only way to reduce space used by the table is OPTIMIZE.
>
> Is this normal ? Is this a difference between ISAM an MyISAM ? I saw
> no notice about that in the documentation ...
>
> Regards,
> Alex.
Have you tried TRUNCATE command ??
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