On Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 04:18 AM, Daniel Kroeger wrote:
Hello,
is it normal, that the size of a collection doesn't shrink if you delete documents:
Yes it's normal, maybe not good, but normal.
I have a collection which has 12.288 bytes after its creation.
Than I add 100.000 documents, make an XPath query and delete the documents.
But the collection stays at 437.067.776 bytes.............which is IMHO a
bit too much for an empty collection.
And you would be correct. The file grows in chunks as needed, the size of the file is always going to be larger then the amount of data in the file.
As the engine matures I'm sure it will make better use of the files.
Daniel
Kimbro Staken Java and XML Software, Consulting and Writing http://www.xmldatabases.org/ Apache Xindice native XML database http://xml.apache.org/xindice XML:DB Initiative http://www.xmldb.org
