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Saving space disk (innodb)

Saving space disk (innodb)

2007-10-10       - By Baron Schwartz

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mos wrote:
> At 01:24 PM 10/10/2007, Baron Schwartz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Tiago Cruz wrote:
>>> Hello guys,
>>> I have one monster database running on MySQL 4.0.17, using InnoDB:
>>> 270GB Oct 10 14:35 ibdata1
>>>
>>> I've deleted a lot of register of then, and I've expected that the size
>>> can be decreased if 50% (135 GB) but the ibdata was the same value than
>>> before "clean"...
>>> How can I force to save this space?
>>
>> You must dump your data to files,
>
> Why not change the table type to MyISAM instead of dumping to a file?

If you have a bunch of indexes on the table, you're creating the indexes
on the MyISAM table too.  It could be a lot more expensive than a dump
and restore.

Otherwise it sounds like a good idea.

Baron

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