Hi, when I've a collection with 1000 resources in it and i'm deleting 500 of them -> the size will not reduced. when i'm adding 500 new resource to this collection will the space recycled ?? or will the collection getting bigger ?? and the space form the 500 deleted resource is lost ??
thanks Dirk Bromberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: Kimbro Staken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2002 21:55 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: Collection size after deleting 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
