Re: [sqlite] Using VACUUM on an empty file will create a defaultdatabase

2013-07-25 Thread Igor Tandetnik
On 7/25/2013 2:51 AM, sworddrag...@aol.com wrote: I'm not sure what you want to say me. "echo 'garbage' > some/random/file" will also overwrite non-empty files which is more problematic. Precisely. So do you believe there should be an option to disable echo command? Or rm command? Or cp

Re: [sqlite] Using VACUUM on an empty file will create a defaultdatabase

2013-07-25 Thread Paolo Bolzoni
I also have hard time follow... My answer would be: "yes," What is the problem? On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:51 AM, wrote: > I'm not sure what you want to say me. "echo 'garbage' > some/random/file" > will also overwrite non-empty files which is more problematic. > >

Re: [sqlite] Using VACUUM on an empty file will create a defaultdatabase

2013-07-25 Thread sworddragon2
I'm not sure what you want to say me. "echo 'garbage' > some/random/file" will also overwrite non-empty files which is more problematic. ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

Re: [sqlite] Using VACUUM on an empty file will create a defaultdatabase

2011-11-30 Thread Igor Tandetnik
sworddrag...@aol.com wrote: > I'm using sqlite3 3.7.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 dev. If the VACUUM command is used on > empty files it will create a default database (for > example "touch /tmp/test.txt && sqlite3 /tmp/test.txt VACUUM"). > > If this behaviour is wanted there should be an option to disable

[sqlite] Using VACUUM on an empty file will create a default database

2011-11-30 Thread sworddragon2
I'm using sqlite3 3.7.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 dev. If the VACUUM command is used on empty files it will create a default database (for example "touch /tmp/test.txt && sqlite3 /tmp/test.txt VACUUM"). If this behaviour is wanted there should be an option to disable this because it could destroy

Re: [sqlite] using vacuum

2007-05-29 Thread Scott Baker
If there is no redundancy to remove then the database size will remain the same. Vacuum is only really effective after you delete a large amount of data from a DB. - Scott Li, Charles wrote: > Hi, > I use the vacuum command on a database, but the size remains the same. What > should I check? >

[sqlite] using vacuum

2007-05-29 Thread Li, Charles
Hi, I use the vacuum command on a database, but the size remains the same. What should I check? Thanks, Charles Li