Hi Thomas,

The database file size in 1.4.184 is much, much better than in earlier 
1.4.x releases.

I've done some trials and these are my findings:

1.3.176: Fully loaded database after shutdown is 317 Mb
1.4.184: Fully loaded database after shutdown is 380 Mb

This seems reasonable.


On Friday, 19 December 2014 17:15:29 UTC+8, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Version 1.4.184 should produce smaller database files than previous 
> version (1.4.x - 1.4.182), maybe half or a third of the old file size. It 
> would be great to get some real-world results!
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Thomas Mueller <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Some initial results: you can shrink the database by running "shutdown 
>> compact" or "shutdown defrag". Each time this is run, it shrinks a few MB 
>> (up to some point, of course). This works, but it's relatively slow. Now 
>> the task is to make it faster. There are two ways: shrink it fully to the 
>> minimum size, and shrink it incrementally (like now) but faster. I'm 
>> working on that now.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Steve McLeod <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>
>>> I've sent you a private email with a link to the new database file, made 
>>> with H2 1.4.178
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, 5 May 2014 07:46:16 UTC+2, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The database file should shrink if you run "shutdown defrag".
>>>>
>>>> The current compact algorithm is quite inefficient, that means the 
>>>> databases file is quite big on average. The highest priority is still to 
>>>> ensure it always works correctly, and when that's done I will work on more 
>>>> efficiently re-using disk space and specially compact the file faster when 
>>>> closing the database.
>>>>
>>>> Could you send me the new database file? It would be nice to have a 
>>>> real-world database file to test this. The last file you sent helped a 
>>>> lot, 
>>>> thanks to it I found some problems that completely prevented the file to 
>>>> shrink.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Thomas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, May 4, 2014, Steve McLeod <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>>>
>>>>> I tested the same large data import with H2 1.4.178, and there is no 
>>>>> improvement over H2 1.4.177.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here are the file sizes, in both cases after the app has stopped:
>>>>>
>>>>> H2 1.3.176: pokercopilot.h2.db  301,669,352  bytes
>>>>> H2 1.4.178: pokercopilot.mv.db 1,023,037,440  bytes
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know what I can do to help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, 19 April 2014 11:44:05 UTC+2, Steve McLeod wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>>>
>>>>> Great! Glad I could help make your superb product even better.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, 18 April 2014 21:38:27 UTC+2, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot for the database! I know what the problem is now, but I 
>>>>> couldn't fix it yet. The database file (pokercopilot2.mv.db) has about 
>>>>> 181 
>>>>> MB of "live" data, the rest (about 78%) is not used. The mechanism to get 
>>>>> rid of the unused space is not working as it should for this case (I 
>>>>> think 
>>>>> the problem is that b-tree nodes are not processed correctly). This will 
>>>>> be 
>>>>> fixed in the next release.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Steve McLeod <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've sent a link to file privately to your email address.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, 18 April 2014 14:04:37 UTC+2, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Hm, that didn't help much. Could you send me the (compressed) database 
>>>>> files please? If it's too big, what is the compressed size of the files?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Steve McLeod <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the suggestion. I tried adding ";retention_time=1000" to 
>>>>> the URL, and this resulted in a small improvement.
>>>>>
>>>>> pokercopilot.h2.db  302,018,560  bytes
>>>>> pokercopilot.mv.db 999,120,896  bytes
>>>>> pokercopilot.mv.db with RETENTION_TIME=1000:  811,728,896 bytes
>>>>>
>>>>> These numbers all reflect a loading of data in a newly created 
>>>>> database that consisted of roughly 2,400,000 INSERTS and UPDATES with 
>>>>> plenty of SELECTS and almost no DELETES. After the loading was complete, 
>>>>> I 
>>>>> let the application keep running with the database open for a few 
>>>>> minutes, 
>>>>> then close the application and therefore the database.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the full JDBC url I'm using:
>>>>> jdbc:h2:/Users/steve/Library/Application Support/com.barbarysoftware.
>>>>> pokercopilot/database/pokercopilot;DATABASE_EVENT_LISTENER='co
>>>>> m.barbarysoftware.pokercopilot.database.DatabaseListener';COMPRESS_
>>>>> LOB=DEFLATE;CACHE_SIZE=65536;RETENTION_TIME=1000
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help diagnose this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:15:50 UTC+2, Thomas Muel
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