[Tutor] Shelve del not reducing file size

Eric Brunson brunson at brunson.com
Sat Jul 28 21:55:34 CEST 2007


On Sat, July 28, 2007 4:01 am, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Kent Johnson (Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:06:33 -0400)
>
>> Barton David wrote:
>>
>>> *sigh* I'm really going off Python.
>>>
>>
>> In what way is it Python's fault that the dbm database doesn't reclaim
>> disk space?
>
> It's actually how most databases work. Even a simple Outlook pst file
> (which is a database, too) works this way. I thought everyone knows or
> heard about this.

I don't even think mysql reclaims disk space unless you intervene.






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