On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:08:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I agree with David.  If there is no present way to recover unused
> InnoDB tablespace, then we (as a community) seriously need to create
> a tool to do just that. How have we gone so long without it?

Because it's just not a problem for most folks.

> What if, during the course of a major data import, I try something
> that creates a working table that expands my datafile to fill my
> available disk space.

If that's something you're really worried about, you probably
shouldn't be using the autoextend feature on your tablespace file(s).

> Please tell me there is something other than a dump-delete-import
> that can be used to shrink InnoDB tablespaces.

Not that I've heard of...

Jeremy
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