[Tutor] Shelve del not reducing file size

[Andreas Kostyrka]

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Eric Brunson wrote:
> 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.

As this thread got already very philosophical, I'd like to add that the
jury is still out if mysql is a RDBMS. I personally interpret it as a
datafile access library that tries to pretend to be a database system :)

Andreas
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