[rt-users] new database dump smaller than old one

2009-12-15 Thread David Griffith
I installed RT 3.8.7 on a test server and loaded the database with a dump from my production instance of RT (version 3.6.7). I then went through the listed procedures to update the database for 3.8.7. A dump of the resulting database is about 9.5 megabytes whereas the old database dump is ab

Re: [rt-users] new database dump smaller than old one

2009-12-15 Thread Aaron Guise
Ours reduced by about 1gig. I am sure it is something to do with the more efficient storage of binary files in (Binary Datatypes) Instead of longtext/longblob. I noticed also the backup takes less time to run.. All is well and we have no problems so I feel there is no cause for concern. On We