BSDDB Pack function?

[Robin Dunn]

"Robert Roy" <rjroy at takingcontrol.com> wrote in message
news:38aa0248.419826718 at news1.on.sympatico.ca...
> (from Robin's Reference Guide)
>
> ref B-Tree dbs
>
>  Space freed by deleting key/data pairs from the database is never
>  reclaimed from the filesystem, although it is reused where possible.
>  This means that the btree storage structure is grow-only.  If
>  sufficiently many keys are deleted from a tree that shrinking the
>  underlying database file is desirable, this can be accomplished by
>  creating a new tree from a scan of the existing one.
>

If you built the utilities in the Sleepycat DB package then you also have
db_dump and db_load which can do a database rebuild for you.


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