Yes, it builds a new index file before deleteing the old.
Oswaldo Castro wrote:
>Hi List
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>I have a table with 90 Millions records and 8 indexes (75GB). I am
>trying to drop one of them but I get an errorcode 28 (no space left on
>device). df- v gives me an extra 27% of free space.
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>My questions:
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>Does MySQL use temporary areas to drop indexes and for what ?
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>Is there a way to tell to MySQL to ignore this ?
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>Thanks in advance
>
>Oswaldo Castro
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