On 11/01/2010 18:00, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
> A customer of mine asked me to periodically delete old, unneeded records
> containing ByteA fields, because he think it will reduce the database
> size on disk. Is this true?. For example, in Firebird, the database size
> is not reduced until you do a Backup-Restore of the database.

When you delete a row, the space isn't reclaimed until you do a VACUUM.

Ray.


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