Lawrence, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Heikki Tuuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 6:47 PM Subject: Re: Shrinking innodb datafiles?
> Heikki, > > thanks for the reply, will note. > > Just to confirm if I understand the situation > correctly: innodb datafiles cannot be reduced in size > to reclaim spaced freed by deleted data? you are right. > (That'd > probably explain why I had a hard time finding ISPs > offering innodb-enabled MySQL). That might be a factor, though I guess the demand for transactions is rather small in ISP-hosted databases. > Lawrence Smith Best regards, Heikki Tuuri Innobase Oy http://www.innodb.com Foreign keys, transactions, and row level locking for MySQL InnoDB Hot Backup - a hot backup tool for InnoDB which also backs up MyISAM tables Order MySQL technical support from https://order.mysql.com/ > --- Heikki Tuuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lawrence, > > > > if you use MySQL-4.1.1, and specify > > > > innodb_file_per_table > > > > in my.cnf, then InnoDB places each table into its > > own .ibd file. That is a > > way to free the disk space to the OS if you drop a > > table. > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save £80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
