On 11/01/2010 18:00, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > A customer of mine asked me to periodically delete old, unneeded records > containing ByteA fields, because he think it will reduce the database > size on disk. Is this true?. For example, in Firebird, the database size > is not reduced until you do a Backup-Restore of the database. When you delete a row, the space isn't reclaimed until you do a VACUUM. Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland rod@xxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
