Re: Shrinking innodb datafiles?

2004-02-01 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Lawrence, - Alkuperäinen viesti - Lähettäjä: "Lawrence Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vastaanottaja: "Heikki Tuuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kopio: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lähetetty: Sunday, February 01, 2004 1:03 PM Aihe: Re: Shrinking innodb datafiles?

Re: Shrinking innodb datafiles?

2004-02-01 Thread Lawrence Smith
--- Heikki Tuuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 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. Once again thanks. One absolutely last question (only just occurred to

Re: Shrinking innodb datafiles?

2004-01-31 Thread Heikki Tuuri
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, > > thank

Re: Shrinking innodb datafiles?

2004-01-31 Thread Lawrence Smith
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? (That'd probably explain why I had a hard time finding ISPs offering innodb-enabled MySQL). Lawrence Smith ---

Re: Shrinking innodb datafiles?

2004-01-30 Thread Heikki Tuuri
dbc Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 12:59 AM Subject: Re: Shrinking innodb datafiles? > --- Jeff Mathis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > someone will no doubt echo what I'm about to say. > > InnoDB files are created at startup. the files use > > all the disk you

Re: Shrinking innodb datafiles?

2004-01-29 Thread Lawrence Smith
--- Jeff Mathis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > someone will no doubt echo what I'm about to say. > InnoDB files are created at startup. the files use > all the disk you > allocate to them in your my.cnf startup file. > > If you want smaller InnoDB files, specify a smaller > file size in your > my

Re: Shrinking innodb datafiles?

2004-01-29 Thread Jeff Mathis
someone will no doubt echo what I'm about to say. InnoDB files are created at startup. the files use all the disk you allocate to them in your my.cnf startup file. If you want smaller InnoDB files, specify a smaller file size in your my.cnf file, but I have a feeling thats not what you want to d

Shrinking innodb datafiles?

2004-01-29 Thread Lawrence Smith
I have recently dropped a database with a big innodb table in it - but the data file (ibdata1) failed to get smaller. It's pretty big (nearly 2GB) and I'd like to reduce it if possible. Is there any way to do this? Thx BT