Re: innodb defragmentation question

2004-01-02 Thread Heikki Tuuri
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Re: innodb defragmentation question

2003-12-31 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
the problem is that, if it happens again, I get a file of 900 MB, which gets kinda big ... In order to rectify the situation after that, I'll need to dump all innodb tables, drop them and reinsert them. This would takes hours, and in the meantime the application running on top of it would be do

Re: innodb defragmentation question

2003-12-30 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Franky, since MySQL performs ALTER TABLE ... TYPE = InnoDB; by totally rebuilding the table, it is very normal that the space usage temporarily doubles in ibdata files. But if it doubles also after an immediate SECOND rebuild, then that must be a bug. If you can reproduce that phenomenon, pleas

innodb defragmentation question

2003-12-30 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
since it has been the holidays, I can understand this one failed to draw attention of the people able to answer, so I'm sending it again: Hi all, if I try to defrag an InnoDB table (using "alter table ... type=innodb;") I see th

innodb defragmentation question

2003-12-26 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
Hi all, if I try to defrag an InnoDB table (using "alter table ... type=innodb;") I see the size of ibdata1 growing to almost double its size, and again it doubles if I try it again ... there's only 1 innodb table in my setup, so no other table can be causing this. Is this intentional/normal o