The index does get much small when recreated.

I think this is some kind of a bug in the recovery code.

Under the normal operation the index file size in our database is
about 60% of the data size.
However after several power failures it grows to some very
unreasonable size (in some cases it is 25 times the data size).
We are implementing a work-around that would delete the index file if
the size is unreasonable, but I'd much rather have the recovery /
store code fixes.

Alex

On Dec 17, 10:12 pm, trashgod <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 16, 5:12 pm, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have a fairly small database one table has 1400 rows and the other
> > table is about 3500 rows. I have 3 primary key indexes and 5 indexes
> > on BIGINT column types.
>
> > The data file size is about 1 MB, however the index size grows to
> > about 25+ MB. I don't have the entire diagnostic information yet, but
> > I think that it has to do with the power failures and the recovery of
> > the index after the failure.
>
> > The problem is that the larger this index file is the longer it takes
> > to recover from the failure next time around. I also looked at the
> > index file with the HEX viewer. It appears that beyond the first
> > 5%-8% of the file the rest is filled with zeroes.
>
> > What is the expected data / index size ratio in H2? Is there anything
> > short of recreating the index to get it compacted? What can be
> > causing most of the index file to have zeroes in it?
>
> Why not drop and recreate the constraints & indexes? See if it gets
> smaller.
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