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Saving space disk (innodb)

Saving space disk (innodb)

2007-10-10       - By Dan Rogart

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So, just to clarify: optimize table just defragments the index?

Apologies, I misinterpreted the documentation then.

Thanks,

Dan

-- --Original Message-- --
From: Baron Schwartz [mailto:baron@(protected)]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:05 PM
To: Tiago Cruz
Cc: Eric Frazier; Dan Rogart; mysql@(protected)
Subject: Re: Saving space disk (innodb)

Hi Tiago,

Tiago Cruz wrote:
> Thank you guys!!
>
> I have a lot of MyISAM and a lot of InnoDB on this database.
>
> I did one little "for" to run one "OPTIMIZE TABLE" in each table that
I
> have, on my database.
>
> If this step don't save enough disk space, I'll do the Baron
suggestion.

It will not shrink your InnoDB files a single byte :-)  If you're trying

to shrink those, it's a waste of time.

Baron


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