On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
> VACUUM destroys tables (and indexes) and makes new ones, so it frees pages > and allocates new ones. The content of the 'unused' bytes in the > newly-allocated pages would not have anything to do with the content of the > pages which used to exist. I don't know if those bytes would dependably > contain zero or just gibberish. > That's one way to look at it. Another (mine) is that is "moves" pages and "fills holes", in which case some pages' content remain largely unchanged, thus I find reasonable that on some pages, the reserved pages would be preserved. Is your answer one informed from knowing exactly what the code does Simon? Genuinely wondering, this is not a diss or anything like that. --DD _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
